The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (Wales) Regulations 2016

PART 5 E+WEnforcement of Regulation 767/2009

Interpretation of this Part and Schedule 1E+W

11.  In this Part and in Schedule 1 any reference to a numbered Article or Annex is a reference to the Article or Annex so numbered in Regulation 767/2009.

Offence of failing to comply with a specified provision of Regulation 767/2009E+W

12.—(1) [F1A] person who—

(a)contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of Regulation 767/2009 specified in Schedule 1; or

(b)places on the market or uses a feed that fails to comply with Article 6(1) or 8,

commits an offence.

(2) Where, pursuant to Article 17(2)(c), the name of a specific feed material may be replaced by the name of the category to which the feed material belongs, only the categories listed in [F2Schedule 1A] may be indicated.

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Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 767/2009E+W

13.—(1) Each feed authority in its area is the competent authority for the purposes of—

(a)Article 5(3), 13(1)(a) and 17(3) and Annex VII, Chapter 1, paragraph 8; and

(b)Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may request scientific substantiation of a claim and to whose attention purchasers have the right to bring doubts regarding the truthfulness of a claim.

(2) The Agency is the competent authority for the purposes of—

F3(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may submit to the [F4Welsh Ministers] doubts concerning the scientific substantiation of a claim.

(3) The Agency and each feed authority in its area is a competent authority for the purposes of Article 5(2).

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