Improvement notice – application of Article 9 of the OrderN.I.
7.—(1) Article 9 of the Order (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modifications.
(2) For paragraph (1), substitute—
“(1) If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with a provision of the Food Additives, Flavourings. Enzymes and Extraction Solvents Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 specified in paragraph (1A), the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (an “improvement notice”)—
(a)state the officer's grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;
(b)specify the matters which constitute the person's failure so to comply;
(c)specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and
(d)require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.
(1A) The provisions are-
(a)Regulation 13(2); and
(b)any EU provision specified in the first column of Table 2 of Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 4.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (3).