Item 10 is the Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, and I call on the Minister for environment to move the motion. Lesley Griffiths.

Motion NDM7010 Rebecca Evans

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales; in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves that the draft The Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 05 March 2019.

Motion moved.

Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion.

Many of the amendments made under the regulations are technical in nature and will ensure that legislation required to underpin the following will operate effectively in the UK after leaving the EU: the traceability of livestock for disease prevention and control, trade in animals and animal-related products with the EU, and halting any animals or products deemed to be a threat to animal and/or public health from entering Wales; seed marketing to ensure continuity of supply after withdrawal where there are supply difficulties; animal health requirements in relation to salmonella control programmes continue to be adhered to and the associated sampling services are paid for in order to maintain our control programme to reduce the prevalence of regulated strains of salmonella, and to protect both animal and public health; controls on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies continue to operate to protect animal and public health through the prevention of prohibited materials entering the feed and food chain, and existing prohibitions concerning feed products to be fed to those animals under a TSE-related movement restriction will continue to be enforced unless the feed is produced and processed in a manner approved by the Welsh Ministers; and the trade of plant material with Crown dependencies and the maintenance of biosecurity.

I call on Dawn Bowden to speak on behalf of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. Dawn Bowden.

Diolch, Llywydd. I'm speaking on the Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. We considered these regulations at our meeting on 18 March. We reported two technical points to the Assembly under Standing Order 21.2(vi). In our report we expressed concerns about defective drafting because they amended regulations that did not exist at the time that we considered the draft regulations. We acknowledge that the regulations in question have now been made. They are the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Wales) Regulations 2019, and the Plant Health (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. While we acknowledge the pressures that exist to correct the statute book as a result of leaving the EU and the likelihood of overlapping and complex legislation, we highlight the fact that we cannot base our reports on what might happen in the future. If the regulations in question had not been made, regulations seven and eight within the rural affairs regulations would have had no legal effect. 

Does the Minister wish to respond?

No.

The proposal, therefore, is to agree the motion. Does any Member object? The motion is therefore agreed. 

Motion agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.