The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

1.  These Regulations amend, in relation to Northern Ireland, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1872, as already amended), which extend to the whole of the United Kingdom. These Regulations implement Council Decision 98/728/EC concerning a Community system of fees in the animal feed sector (O.J. No. L346, 22.12.98, p. 51).

2.  These Regulations amend S.I. 1999/1872 by –

(a) inserting a new regulation, 9A, into that instrument, providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the specified approval body (“the competent body”) by a person applying to that body for approval of an establishment under regulation 5 or 7 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 4);

(b) inserting a new regulation, 16A, into that instrument, providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the competent body by a person applying to it for approval as an “intermediary” under regulation 12 or 14 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 5); and

(c) inserting a new Schedule, 1A, into that instrument, specifying the fees payable by virtue of new regulations 9A and 16A (regulation 6).