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

Amendment of the Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) after the definition of “collection centre” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““Commission Decision 95/165” means Commission Decision 95/165/EC establishing uniform criteria for the grant of derogations to certain establishments manufacturing milk-based products(1);”;

““Commission Decision 95/340” means Commission Decision 95/340/EC 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(2), as amended by Commission Decision 96/106/EC(3);”;

(ii) for the definition of “EEA State” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement but does not include Iceland;”;

(iii) in the definition of “limited production” there shall be substituted for the words “300,000 litres” the words “2 million litres”;

(iv) the definition of “low capacity dairy establishment” shall be omitted;

(v) for the definition of “potable water” there shall be substituted the following definition—

• ““potable water” has the same meaning as in the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(4);”; and

(vi) after the definition of “raw” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““risk analysis principles” means the principles referred to in Article 14(1) of Council Directive 92/46;”;

(b) in paragraph (2) there shall be inserted at the end the words “and Commission Decisions 95/165 and 95/340”.

(1)

O.J. No. L108, 13.5.95, p. 84

(2)

O.J. No. L200, 24.8.95, p. 38

(3)

O.J. No. L24, 31.1.96, p. 34

(4)

S.R. 1995 No. 360 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 286