The Purity Criteria for Colours, Sweeteners and Miscellaneous Food Additives (England) Regulations 2009

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995

4.—(1) The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) —

(a) omit the definition of “Directive 96/77/EC” and substitute in its place the following definition —

“”Directive 2008/84/EC” means Commission Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners(2) as that Directive was before the amendments made by Commission Directive 2009/10/EC(3);”;

(b) in the definition of “purity criteria”, in sub-paragraph (a) for the expression “the Annex to Directive 96/77/EC” substitute “Annex I to Directive 2008/84/EC”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/3187. The definitions of “Directive 96/77/EC” and “purity criteria” were inserted by S.I. 1997/1413 and last amended in relation to England by S.I. 2001/3775 as regards “purity criteria” and S.I. 2007/1778 as regards “Directive 96/77/EC”. There have been other amendments but they are not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

OJ No. L253, 20.9.2008, p.1.

(3)

Commission Directive 2009/10/EC amending Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (OJ No. L44, 13.02.2009, p.62).