Improvement notice – application of Article 9 of the Order4
1
Article 9 of the Order (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modifications.
2
For paragraph (1), substitute—
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If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that an operator has not complied with, or is not likely to comply with, a consumer information requirement or a traceability requirement, the officer may, by notice served on that operator (in this Order referred to as an “improvement notice”)—
a
state the officer's grounds for believing that the operator is failing to comply with those requirements;
b
specify the matters which constitute the operator's failure so to comply;
c
specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the operator must take in order to secure compliance; and
d
require the operator to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.
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For paragraph (3), substitute —
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In this Article—
a
“consumer information requirement” and “traceability requirement” have the meanings given by regulation 3(1) of the Fish Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013;
b
“operator” has the meaning as in the EU Regulations as defined in regulation 2(1) and 2(2) of the Fish Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013.