Government Response: 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

Technical Scrutiny point 1: The Government acknowledges the point.  The Government considers that the error is minor and does not cause any confusion as to the scope of the relevant entry in Annex 2 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1973.

A review of Regulation 2019/1973 is currently in progress.  A further statutory instrument is planned that will substitute an updated Annex 2 to that Regulation; that instrument is anticipated to be made in the fourth quarter of 2024.

For the reasons set out above, the Government has made the decision to leave the instrument in its existing form.