The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) and the Milk and Milk Products (Protection of Designations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Offences and penalty

6.—(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with —

(a)regulation 4; or

(b)any Community provision,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(2) The Community provisions are —

(a)Article 114(1) of the Council Regulation (prescribed descriptions for milk and milk products) as read with Annex XII to that Regulation;

(b)Article 115 of the Council Regulation (marketing standards applying to spreadable fats, including compositional criteria for reserved descriptions), as read with —

(i)Annex XV to the Council Regulation,

(ii)Article 1 of and Annex I to the Commission Regulation, or

(iii)Article 2 of and Annex II to the Commission Regulation; and

(c)Article 3 of the Commission Regulation (requirements relating to the use of the designation “butter” for composite products) as read with Annex III to that Regulation.