The Food Information (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014

2.  In the Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014(1), after regulation 15 insert—

“Transitional provision: the Trade and Cooperation Agreement

16.— (1) An authorised officer of an enforcement authority must not serve an improvement notice, in respect of EU Annex 15 wine (including EU Annex 15 wine labelled on or after 1 May 2021) that is placed on the market in Wales—

(a) by a wholesaler or producer during the period beginning on 1 January 2022 and expiring on 1 May 2023;

(b) by a retailer on or after 1 January 2022 until stocks of EU Annex 15 wine are exhausted.

(2) In this regulation—

“EU Annex 15 wine” (“gwin Atodiad 15 yr UE”) means wine—

(a)

to which Article 5 (transitional measures) of Annex 15 (trade in wine) to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, as read with Article 1(1) (scope) of that Annex, applies, and

(b)

that is imported into Great Britain from a member State;

“improvement notice” (“hysbysiad gwella”) means an improvement notice pursuant to regulation 12(1);

“placed on the market” (“a roddir ar y farchnad”) is to be construed taking into account the definition of “placing on the market” in point 8 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

“the Trade and Cooperation Agreement” (“y Cytundeb Masnach a Chydweithredu”) has the same meaning as in section 37(1) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020.”

(1)

S.I. 2014/2303 (W. 227), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.