PART 2 N.I.Marketing and use of feed

Interpretation of this Part and Schedule 1 N.I.

3.  In this Part and in Schedule 1 any reference to a numbered Article or Annex is a reference to the Article or Annex so numbered in Regulation 767/2009.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in operation at 23.11.2010, see reg. 1

Enforcement of requirements of Regulation 767/2009 N.I.

4.—(1) Subject to the transitional provisions contained in Article 32, any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of Regulation 767/2009 specified in Schedule 1 is guilty of an offence.

(2) Where, pursuant to Article 17(2)(c), the name of a specific feed material may be replaced by the name of the category to which the feed material belongs, only the categories listed in the Annex to Directive 82/475 may be indicated.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 4 in operation at 23.11.2010, see reg. 1

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 767/2009 N.I.

5.—(1) The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is the competent authority for the purposes of —

(a) Articles 5(2), 5(3), 13(1)(a) and 17(3) and Annex VII, Chapter 1, paragraph 8; and

(b) Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may request scientific substantiation of a claim and to whose attention purchasers have the right to bring doubts regarding the truthfulness of a claim.

(2) The Food Standards Agency is the competent authority for the purposes of —

(a) Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may submit to the Commission doubts concerning the scientific substantiation of a claim; and

(b) Article 26(1)(b).

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 5 in operation at 23.11.2010, see reg. 1