Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, which further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001 No. 47 – “the principal Regulations”), provide for the enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2003 amending the conditions for authorisation of a number of additives in feedingstuffs belonging to the group of trace elements (O.J. No. L187, 26.7.2003, p. 11), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1801/2003 provisionally authorising the new use of a certain micro-organism in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L264, 15.10.2003, p. 16), and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1847/2003 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new use of an additive and the permanent authorisation of an additive already authorised in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L269, 21.10.2003, p. 3) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2112/2003 correcting Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2003 amending the conditions for authorisation of a number of additives in feedingstuffs belonging to the group trace elements (O.J. No. L317, 2.12.2003, p. 22) (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

These Regulations also implement Commission Directive 2003/57/EC amending Directive 2002/32 of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed (O.J. No. L151, 19.6.2003, p. 38) by amending Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations so as to specify new maximum levels for dioxin in feedingstuffs (regulation 2(4) and Schedule 1).

These Regulations also implement Commission Directive 2003/104/EC authorising isopropyl ester of the hydroxylated analogue of methionine (O.J. No. L295, 13.11.2003, p. 83) by amending Schedule 8 to the principal Regulations so as to revise the conditions for the sale or possession for sale of analogues of methionine for use as a feeding stuff or as a protein source in a feeding stuff (regulation 2(5) and Schedule 2).