2.—(1) The Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(1) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation) after “Decision 2008/289/EC” insert “, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision 2013/287/EU.” (2)
(3) In regulation 3(1)(a) (Restriction on placing on the market of rice products) after the words “specified in” insert “Article 3 and”.
(4) For regulation 8 substitute—
8.—(1) Until 5th August 2013, the prohibition in regulation 3(1) does not apply in relation to any rice product, other than a rice product which corresponds to CN Codes 1905 90 60, 1905 90 90 or 2103 90 90, provided that—
(a)the product arrived in the Union before 4 July 2013; and
(b)the placing on the market of the product would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations as they stood immediately before the coming into operation of the Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013.
(2) Until 5th October 2013, the prohibition in Regulation 3(1) does not apply in relation to a rice product which corresponds to CN Codes 1905 90 60, 1905 90 90 or 2103 90 90.”.
S.R. 2008 No. 171 was amended by S.R. 2012 No. 3
)OJ L 162 14.6.2013, p. 10