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Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Milk and dairy products

Food hygiene

Food safety

Hygiene

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2016-09-06

FOOD

MILK AND DAIRIES

These Regulations amend the Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations—implement Article 2 of, as read with Annex B to, Commission Decision 95/165/EC (O.J. No. L108, 13.5.95, p. 84) establishing uniform criteria for the grant of derogations to certain establishments manufacturing milk-based products (regulations 3 and 5);implement Commission Decision 95/340/EC (O.J. No. L200, 24.8.95, p. 38) drawing up a provisional list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of milk and milk-based products and revoking Decision 94/70/EC, as amended by Commission Decision 96/106/EC (O.J. No. L24, 31.1.96, p. 34), and as read with Articles 22 and 23(2)(a) of Council Directive 92/46/EEC (O.J. No. L268, 14.9.92, p. 1) laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products (regulations 3(a) and 8);make some corrections to the principal Regulations to reflect provisions in Council Directive 92/46/EEC, as amended, relating to heat-treated drinking milk (regulation 10) and the health mark (regulation 12);clarify the provisions in the principal Regulations relating to risk analysis principles (regulation 3(a)(vi)), exemptions (regulation 4) and enforcement and supervision (regulation 6), make a few drafting amendments (regulations 3(a)(v), 7, 9, 11 and 13) and a consequential amendment (regulation 3(a)(iii)).