The Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2016 No. 54

Food

The Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

17th February 2016

Coming into operation

31st March 2016

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (1) and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (2), are Departments designated (3) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (4) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community and in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.

Acting jointly(5), the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 and Articles 15(1)(a),(b) and (f), 15(3), 16(1) and (2), 25(1), 25(2)(a) and (b) and (3), 26(3), 30(9), 31(3), 32(1) and (2)(c), (d), (e), (f) and (h), 44(1) and (2) and 47(2) of, and paragraphs 3(1)(b) and 7 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(6).

The aforementioned Departments have consulted in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(7).

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety that it is expedient for any reference in these Regulations to the Annexes to Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists(8), to Council Directive 96/23/EC on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products(9) and to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 37/2010 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin(10) to be construed as a reference to those Annexes as amended from time to time.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland: see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1), Article 3(4).

(2)

Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services: see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1), Article 3(6).

(3)

S.I. 1972/1811 and S.I. 1999/2027.

(4)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

(5)

S.R. 2000 No.78: see regulation 13(1)(d)(i) which allows the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to join with the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in making Regulations under the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 in relation to residues of veterinary products in food or food sources.

(6)

S.I. 1991/762 (N.I.7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I.12), paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c.28, S.R. 2004 No. 482, S.R. 2004 No. 505, S.I.2006/3336 (N.I. 21) and 2009 c. 1 (N.I.).

(7)

O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1.

(8)

O.J. No. L125, 23.5.1996, p. 3, as last amended by Directive 2008/97/EC (O.J. No. L318, 28.11.2008, p. 9).

(9)

O.J. No. L215, 23.5.1996, p. 10, as last amended by Regulation (EC) 596/2009 (O.J. No. L188, 18.7.2009, p. 14).

(10)

O.J. No. L15, 20.1.2010, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 222/2012 (O.J. No. L75, 15.3.2012, p. 10).