The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

PART 1 N.I. Preliminary

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and come into operation on 30th June 2006.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in operation at 30.6.2006, see reg. 1

Interpretation N.I.

2.—(1) In these Regulations —

“authorised officer” means any person, whether or not an officer of the district council, who is authorised by it in writing to act in matters arising under these Regulations;

“BADGE” has the meaning given in Article 1(1)(a) of Regulation 1895/2005;

“BFDGE” has the meaning given in Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation 1895/2005;

“business” is to be construed in accordance with Article 2(2) of the Order;

“capable” means capable as established under regulation 11;

“Directive 82/711” means Council Directive 82/711/EEC(1) laying down the basic rules necessary for testing migration of the constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs, as last amended by Commission Directive 97/48/EC(2);

“Directive 85/572” means Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs(3);

“Directive 88/388” means Council Directive 88/388/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production(4);

“Directive 89/107” means Council Directive 89/107/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning food additives authorised in foodstuffs intended for human consumption(5);

“the Directive” means Commission Directive 2002/72/EC(6) relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs, as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/19/EC(7);

“EEA State” means a Member State (other than the United Kingdom), Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein;

“EFSA” means the European Food Safety Authority;

“food” is to be construed in accordance with Article 15(5) of the Order;

“good technical quality” means good technical quality as regards the purity criteria;

“handling of food” means use in connection with the storage, preparation, packaging, sale or serving of food;

“import” means import in the course of a business;

“material or article” means a material or article falling within the definition of materials and articles in Article 1(2) of Regulation 1895/2005;

“monomer” means any substance which is included for the purposes of the Directive among monomers and other starting substances;

“NOGE” has the meaning given in Article 1(1)(c) of Regulation 1895/2005;

“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order1991;

“the 1998 Regulations” means the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(8);

“the 2005 Regulations” means the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(9);

“plastic material or article” means anything which for the purposes of the Directive is included among those plastic materials and articles and parts thereof to which the Directive applies;

“the Purity Directives” means Commission Directive 95/31/EC laying down specific criteria of purity concerning sweeteners for use in foodstuffs(10), Commission Directive 95/45/EC laying down purity criteria concerning colours for use in foodstuffs(11) and Commission Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria for food additives other than colours or sweeteners(12);

“Regulation 1895/2005” means Commission Regulation (EC) No 1895/2005 on the restriction of use of certain epoxy derivatives in materials and articles intended to come into contact with food(13);

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations the supply otherwise than on sale, in the course of a business, of any material or article is deemed to be a sale.

(3) Any other expression used in these Regulations and in the Directive, Directive 82/711, Directive 85/572 or Regulation 1895/2005 bears the same meaning in these Regulations as it bears in that Directive or Regulation.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in operation at 30.6.2006, see reg. 1

(1)

OJ No. L297, 23.10.1982, p.26

(2)

OJ No. L222, 12.8.1997, p.10

(3)

OJ No. L372, 31.12.1985, p.14

(4)

OJ No. L184, 15.7.1988, p.61

(5)

OJ No. L40, 11.2.1989, p. 27

(6)

OJ No. L220, 15.8.2002, p.18

(7)

OJ No. L71, 10.3.2004, p.8

(8)

S.R. 1998 No. 264, as amended by S.R. 2000 No. 402, S.R. 2002 No. 316, S.R. 2003 No. 2, S.R. 2004 No. 493 and S.R. 2005 No. 49

(9)

S.R. 2005 No. 210

(10)

OJ No. L178, 28.7.97, p.1, as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/46, OJ No. L114, 21.4.2004, p.15

(11)

OJ No. L226, 22.9.95, p.1, as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/47, OJ No. L113, 20.4.2004, p.24

(12)

OJ No. L339, 30.12.96, p.1, as last amended by Commission Directive 2003/95, OJ No. L283, 31.10.2003, p.71

(13)

OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.28