The Food and Drink (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Food and Wine Composition, Information and Labelling) Regulations 2021

Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1337/2013

7.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1337/2013(1) laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 2(2), after point (b) insert—

“(c) ‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales individually.”.

(3) In Article 5—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) in the first subparagraph, in points (a) and (b), omit “Member State or third” in each place it occurs;

(ii) in the second subparagraph—

(aa) omit “Members States or third”;

(bb) for the words from “‘Reared in’”, in the first place it occurs, to the end substitute “‘Reared in several countries’”;

(iii) in the third subparagraph omit “Member States or third” in each place it occurs;

(b) in paragraph 2 omit “Member State or third” in both places it occurs;

(c) in paragraph 3, in point (a), omit “Member States or third”;

(d) after paragraph 3 insert—

“4.   In this Article, ‘country’ includes:

(a) the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

(b) the Bailiwick of Jersey;

(c) the Isle of Man.”.

(4) In Article 6—

(a) in the heading, for “third” substitute “other”;

(b) for “Union market” substitute “market in Great Britain”;

(c) for “non-EU” substitute “non-UK”;

(d) omit “third”;

(e) after the existing paragraph insert—

“In this Article, ‘country’ means any country, other than the United Kingdom, and includes:

(a) the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

(b) the Bailiwick of Jersey;

(c) the Isle of Man.”.

(5) In Article 7—

(a) omit points (a) and (b);

(b) in point (c)—

(i) for “non-EU” substitute “non-UK”;

(ii) for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(c) in point (d)—

(i) for “non-EU” substitute “non-UK”;

(ii) for “in: EU” substitute “in: UK”;

(iii) for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(iv) for “one or different Member States” substitute “the United Kingdom”;

(d) for point (e) substitute—

“(e) in a case where neither the indication in point (c) or (d) would be accurate, an indication of rearing and slaughtering as follows:

(i) ‘Reared in:’ followed, as appropriate, by ‘UK’, ‘non-UK’ or ‘UK and non-UK’; and

(ii) ‘Slaughtered in:’ followed, as appropriate, by ‘UK’, ‘non-UK’ or ‘UK and non-UK’.”.

(6) In Article 9, omit the words from “It shall be” to “Member States”.

(1)

EUR 2013/1337.