The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2005

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 3254 (W.247)

AGRICULTURE, WALES

FOOD, WALES

The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2005

Made

24 November 2005

Coming into force

1 January 2006

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise (as respects regulation 41 of the following Regulations) of the powers conferred by sections 16(1), 17(2) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990(1) and now vested in it (2)), having had regard in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and, being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals and the common agricultural policy of the European Community(4) and measures in the veterinary field for the protection of public health(5), in exercise (as respects the following Regulations apart from regulation 41) of the powers conferred by that section, after open and transparent public consultation during the preparation of these Regulations as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(6), makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1990 c. 16; section 1(1) and (2) (definition of “food”) was substituted by S.I. 2004/2990; section 53(2) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 16 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (1994 c. 40), Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c. 28) and S.I. 2004/2990.

(2)

Functions of “the Secretary of State” so far as exercisable in relation to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act.

(3)

1972 c. 68.

(4)

S.I. 2005/1971.

(5)

S.I. 2003/1246.

(6)

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. That Regulation was last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1642/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L245, 29.9.2003, p.4).