The Plant Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020

These Regulations are principally made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) and (3) of schedule 2 and by paragraph 21 of schedule 7 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16) (“the 2018 Act”) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies (in particular, the deficiencies mentioned in section 8(2)(a) to (d) and (g) of the 2018 Act) arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.