Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Zootechnical Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 7 March 2019.

(2)

These Regulations extend to Scotland and, in so far as they extend beyond Scotland, they do so only as a matter of Scots law^f1.

(3)

In these Regulations—

(a)

expressions used in these Regulations have the same meaning as in the Animal Breeding Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,

(b)

“the Animal Breeding Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on zootechnical and genealogical conditions for the breeding, trade in and entry into the Union of purebred breeding animals, hybrid breeding pigs and the germinal products thereof and amending Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, Council Directives 89/608/EEC and 90/425/EEC and repealing certain acts in the area of animal breeding, as amended from time to time^f2.

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Footnotes

f1: These Regulations apply to breed societies and breeding operations recognised by the Scottish Ministers as the competent authority, and the breeding programmes (also approved by that competent authority) may under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2016//1012 (OJ L 171, 29.6.2016, p.66) extend to animals kept in another Member State. In particular, sanctions applied under Article 47 of that Regulation (such as suspension of a breeding programme or withdrawal of recognition of a breed society or breeding organisation) may affect animals being bred in another Member State under a breeding programme approved by the Scottish Ministers. And, under Article 48 of that Regulation, the Scottish Ministers as competent authority may, if necessary, undertake official controls in that other Member State.
f2: OJ L 171, 29.6.2016, p.66. See also Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/716, which makes provision in respect of the model forms to be used for the information to be included in the lists of recognised breed societies and breeding operations, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/717 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 with regard to the model forms of zootechnical certificates for breeding animals and their germinal products and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1940 as regards the content and format of zootechnical certificates issued for purebred breeding animals of the equine species contained in a single lifetime identification document for equidae.