Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 4th July 2013, amend the Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (the “2008 Regulations”) in order to implement Commission Implementing Decision 2013/287/EU amending Implementing Decision 2011/884/EU on emergency measures regarding unauthorised genetically modified rice in rice products originating from China.
Decision 2013/287/EU adds additional categories of rice products to those that are subject to import restrictions and modifies those restrictions.
In particular, these Regulations amend the 2008 Regulations by—
in regulation 2, modifying the definition of the Commission Decision to take account of Decision 2013/287/EU (regulation 2(2));
amending regulation 3(1), which concerns the conditions under which rice products originating from China may be placed on the market (regulation 2(3));
as regulation 8, adding a provision implementing the transitional arrangements contained in Article 9 of Decision 2011/884/EU as amended by Article 1 of Decision 2013/287/EU (regulation 2(4)).
A business and regulatory impact assessment is being prepared for this instrument and will be published once complete. Due to the emergency nature of this instrument, the Food Standards Agency was unable to complete the impact assessment before the coming into force of the instrument.