Government Response: The Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Technical Scrutiny point 1: The Government acknowledges the point – the Welsh language text of regulation 2(3) refers to “Article 3(b)”, when it should refer to “Article 3(d)”.  The English language text is correct. 

The error has been addressed via correction slip.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1214/pdfs/wsics_20241214_we_001.pdf

Merits Scrutiny point 2: These Regulations did not specifically correct the point raised in the Committee’s report on the Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2024, and subsequently they were not, as per paragraphs 3.5.20 onwards in The National Archives’ Statutory Instrument Practice,  made available free of charge to purchasers of the original WSI, and did not contain the relevant “free of charge” Headnote. Therefore, no explanation was considered necessary in the Matters of special interest to the Legislation Justice and Constitution Committee.