Tuberculosis (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022: business and regulatory impact assessment

Scottish Firms Impact Test

These legislative changes could potentially have an impact on international trade if they are not taken forward, however they are unlikely to have an impact on international investment.

If many cattle are disclosed as testing positive this could put our officially TB free status at risk, which would have a negative effect on the cattle industry and could result in disruption to trade. Without this policy, there would be no means for the government to request the details of the affected cattle and this would mean that the full disease picture for TB would not be available.