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2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“audit” means an audit of a competent authority carried out for the purposes of Article 6 in relation to relevant legislation;
“auditor” means a person carrying out an audit on behalf of the competent authority;
“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;
“the EU Official Controls Regulations” means the EU Regulation and the Implementing and Delegated Regulations made under it;
“the EU Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products M1;
“the Feed and Food Regulations” means the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 M2;
“inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations by the Department and includes a veterinary inspector, and in relation to relevant legislation means a person appointed as an inspector by the Department to act under that relevant legislation;
“official controls” means activities referred to in Article 2(1) other than those listed in Article 1(4);
“other official activities” has the meaning given by Article 2(2);
“premises” includes any place, vehicle, trailer, container, stall, moveable structure, ship or aircraft;
“relevant legislation” means European and domestic legislation governing the areas listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of Article 1(2), with the exception of food and food safety, feed and feed safety legislation in so far as—
such legislation is defined as “relevant feed law” or “relevant food law” in the Feed and Food Regulations;
such legislation involves substances the use or presence of which on crops to produce or process feed or food may result in residues of those substances in feed or food; or
it relates to feed additives or medicated feedingstuffs.
(2) In the definition of “relevant legislation”, in paragraph (1)—
(a)“medicated feedingstuffs” means any mixture of feed with a veterinary medicinal product having properties for treating or preventing disease, restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions in animals, or products and feed or feeds which are ready prepared for marketing and intended to be fed to animals without further processing; and
(b)“zootechnical additives” means feed additives in the categories mentioned in Article 6.1(d) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition M3, with the exception of those belonging to the functional group listed in paragraph 4(a), (b) and (c) of Annex I to that Regulation.
(3) Unless otherwise provided in this regulation, terms used in these Regulations have the same meaning as they have in the EU Regulation.
(4) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to an “Article” or “Title” is to an Article or Title of the EU Regulation.
(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 M4 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Marginal Citations
M1OJ No. L 95, 7.04.2017, p. 1
M2S.R. 2009 No. 427, as last amended by S.R. 2019 No. 218.
M3O.J. L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29, last amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 (OJ No. L231, 6.9.2019, p.1).
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