Amendment of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20142

1

The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20146 are amended as follows.

2

After regulation 1(5) insert—

5A

For the purposes of the following provisions, these Regulations come into operation on 1st April 2020—

a

Part 5 of Schedule 5; and

b

regulation 12 and Schedule 4 so far as (by applying, with some modifications, specified provisions of the Order) they enable an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring that person to comply with the provision of FIC specified in Part 5 of Schedule 5 and an appeal against such a notice to be made and dealt with, and make the failure to comply with such an improvement notice an offence.

3

In Schedule 5 (Improvement notices – specified provisions), after Part 4, insert—

Part 5FIC Provision in relation to which improvement notices may be served on and from 1 April 2020

Provision of FIC

Provisions to be read with the provision of FIC

Article 26(3) (requirement for a mandatory indication relating to the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient in certain cases)

Articles 1(3) and 6 of FIC and Articles (2) (3) and (4) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/7757 as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food.