The Curd Cheese (Restriction on Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations implement Commission Decision 2006/694/EC prohibiting the placing on the market of curd cheese manufactured in a dairy establishment in the United Kingdom (OJ No. L283, 14.10.2006, p.59).

2.  The Regulations—

(a)prohibit the placing on the market of any curd cheese manufactured by Bowland Dairy Products Limited, located at Fulshaw Head Farm, Barrowford, Lancashire BB9 6RA and approved under the number UK PE 23 (regulation 3);

(b)apply with modifications certain provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (1991 No. 762 (NI 7) for the purposes of these Regulations (regulation 4);

(c)provide for the inspection and seizure of products that are suspected of having been placed on the market in contravention of regulation 3 of these Regulations (regulation 5);

(d)create offences and penalties (regulation 6); and

(e)make provision for their enforcement (regulation 7).