(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).