Title, extent and commencement

1.-(1) These Regulations which implement Council Directive 93/54/EEC(3) may be cited as the Fish Health (Amendment) Regulations 1994, and shall come into force on 1st July 1994.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Fish Health Regulations 1992(4).

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2. Regulation 2 (Interpretation) shall be amended as follows-

(a)for the definition of "Directive 91/67/EEC" there shall be substituted-

""Directive 91/67/EEC" means Council Directive of 28th January 1991 concerning the animal health conditions governing the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and products(5) which has been amended by and must be read in accordance with the provisions set out in Schedule 7, Part I;";

(b)after the definition of "Directive 91/67/EEC" there shall be inserted the following definition-

""Directive 93/53/EEC" means Council Directive of 24th June 1993 introducing minimum Community measures for the control of certain fish diseases(6);".

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

3. Regulation 3 (placing on the market of aquaculture animals and aquaculture products) shall be amended by adding after paragraph (2)-

"(3) The provisions of this regulation are without prejudice to the provisions of regulations 4, 5, 9 and 10 of the Diseases of Fish (Control) Regulations 1994(7).".

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

4. Regulation 7 (introduction of live fish, eggs and gametes) shall be amended by adding after paragraph (2)-

"(3) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to tropical fish kept permanently in aquaria.".

Regulation 9A

5. After regulation 9 (introduction of live molluscs, eggs and gametes) of the principal Regulations the following shall be added-

"9A.-(1) No person shall introduce into an approved zone or an approved farm any wild fish, molluscs, crustaceans, their eggs or gametes, which have been caught in the deep sea and which are to be used for breeding purposes unless those fish, molluscs, crustaceans, eggs or gametes are first placed in quarantine in suitable facilities and in appropriate conditions to be determined by the Minister.

(2) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to tropical fish kept permanently in aquaria.".

Amendment of regulation 16 of the principal Regulations

6. In paragraph (1) of regulation 16 for the words "The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1992" there shall be substituted-

• "The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1993(8).".

Substitution of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

7. For Schedule 1 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Substitution of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

8. For Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Substitution of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations

9. For Schedule 3 there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Amendment of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations

10. In Part I of Schedule 7 there shall be inserted the following new heading and provision after the entry relating to "Commission Decision 93/169/EEC"-

Regulation 7

SCHEDULE 1

Regulations 11, 12 and 13

"SCHEDULE 1LIST OF DISEASES

1. Infectious Salmon Anaemia

2. Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (referred to in these Regulations as "IHN")

3. Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (referred to in these Regulations as "VHS")

4. Bonamiosis

5. Marteiliosis".

Regulation 8

SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 7

"SCHEDULE 2ZONES IN GREAT BRITAIN - LIVE FISH, EGGS AND GAMETES

Regulation 9

SCHEDULE 3

Regulation 8

"SCHEDULE 3ZONES IN GREAT BRITAIN - DEAD FISH

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Fish Health Regulations 1992 ("the principal Regulations") so as to implement Council Directive 93/54/EEC (OJ No. L 175, 19.7.93, p. 34).

The Regulations:

(a)amend regulation 3 of the principal Regulations so that its provisions are without prejudice to certain provisions of the Diseases of Fish (Control) Regulations 1994 (regulation 3);

(b)provide for the amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations so that the provisions shall not apply to tropical fish kept permanently in aquaria (regulation 4);

(c)insert a new regulation 9A in the principal Regulations which provides for quarantine of certain fish, molluscs and crustaceans from the wild (regulation 5);

(d)provide for the substitution of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 7);

(e)provide for the substitution of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (regulation 8);

(f)provide for the substitution of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 9);

(g)provide for the amendment of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations (regulation 10);

(h)revise the definition of "Directive 91/67/EEC" (regulation 2(a));

(i)insert a definition of "Directive 93/53/EEC" (regulation 2(b));

(j)update the reference in regulation 16(1) of the principal Regulations to the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1992(regulation 6).