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Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/324)
Agenda item 3 is consideration of three negative Scottish statutory instruments. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered all three instruments at its meeting on 19 November 2024 and made no recommendation in relation to them, and no motion to annul has been lodged.
The first instrument for our consideration is the Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2024. The regulations amend Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793, which is on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the European Union of certain goods from certain third countries.
Do members have any comments?
I have no problem with any of the instruments but, having reread the information, I have a comment. It is worth recognising and highlighting the work that Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency do in reviewing the food products and other products that come into the country. In thinking about high-risk food and feed, we need to consider the levels of pesticides that are used in other countries. Aflatoxins, mycotoxins and other things that are potentially carcinogenic may exist at levels that are not acceptable. We should value the work that Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency do in reviewing products and making sure that what goes into our food system is safe.
Thank you, Ms Harper. Your comments will be in the Official Report.
I propose that the committee makes no recommendation in relation to the regulations. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you.
Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/326)
The second instrument for our consideration is the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024. The purpose of the regulations is to extend recognition of relevant professional qualifications for food examiners to those that are issued in Switzerland in order to comply with the UK-Switzerland recognition of professional qualifications—or RPQ—agreement.
As members have no comments on the regulations, I propose that the committee makes no recommendation in relation to them. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
Feed Additives (Authorisations) and Uses of Feed Intended for Particular Nutritional Purposes (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/330)
The final instrument for our consideration is the Feed Additives (Authorisations) and Uses of Feed Intended for Particular Nutritional Purposes (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024. The regulations implement the decision by the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health to authorise 25 feed additives and one feed for particular nutritional purposes.
As members have no comments on the regulations, I propose that the committee makes no recommendation in relation to them. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you.
At our next meeting, which will take place on Tuesday 10 December, we will take evidence from the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health on a package of subordinate legislation on burial law and then on dentistry in Scotland.
That concludes the public part of our meeting.
10:46 Meeting continued in private until 10:47.