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22A.—(1) An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a contravention of regulation 17(1) if—
(a)the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market before IP completion day; and
(b)the matter would not have constituted a contravention of regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day.
(2) An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a contravention of regulation 17(1) if—
(a)the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market [F2before 1 January 2024];
(b)the product bears one of the indications provided for in regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day;
(c)had the product been placed on the market immediately before IP completion day, the use of the indication would not have constituted a contravention of regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day; and
(d)the indication is accurate in identifying the “EU”, “non-EU” or “EU and non-EU” origins, as the case may be, of the honeys in the product.
(3) In this regulation, “improvement notice” means an improvement notice pursuant to regulation 19.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 22A inserted (27.5.2021) by The Food and Drink (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Food and Wine Composition, Information and Labelling) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/632), regs. 1, 4(3)
F2Words in reg. 22A(2)(a) substituted (30.9.2022) by The Food Information (Amendment of Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/938), regs. 1(1), 9
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