G/SPS/N/GBR/44/Add.2  
19 February 2024  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 16 February 2024, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of  the United Kingdom . 
 
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The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of 
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2024; The Official 
Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) 
Regulations 2024; The Official Controls (Imp ort of High -Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal Origin) 
(Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2024  
G/SPS/N/GBR/44  of 9 October 2023 notified draft legislative amendments to the temporary increase 
of official contro ls applicable to certain food and feed of non -animal origin entering Great Britain from 
the countries listed in Annexes 1 and 2 to assimilated Regulation 2019/1793. The Regulations 
introducing these amendments have now been published and are available belo w: 
The Official Controls (Import of High -Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal Origin) (Amendment of 
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 20 24 
The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non -Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) 
Regulations 2024  
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  
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/120/pdfs/uksi_20240120_en.pdf https://www.legislation.
gov.uk/ssi/2024/12/pdfs/ssi_20240012_en.pdf  
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/119/pdfs/wsi_20240119_mi.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into for ce 
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  G/SPS/N/GBR/44/Add.2  
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
UK WTO SPS National Notification Authority and Enquiry Point  
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs  
Seacole Building, 2 Marsham St, London SW1P 4DF  
E-mail: UKSPS@defra.gov.uk  
Text(s) available from: [ X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
UK WTO SPS National Notification Authority and Enquiry Point  
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs  
Seacole Bu ilding, 2 Marsham St, London SW1P 4DF  
E-mail: UKSPS@defra.gov.uk  
 
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