Amendment of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

2.—(1) The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(1) 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 5 FIC 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 2018/775(2) as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food.”

(1)

S.R. 2014 No. 223 to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations. It is prospectively amended by S.R. 2019 No. 353 from exit day

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/775 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food