The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2615, as amended).

They provide for the execution and enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 37/2005 (“Regulation 37/2005”) on the monitoring and storage of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for human consumption (O.J. No. L 10, 13.1.05, p.18.)

These Regulations–

(a) prohibit failure to comply with specified provisions of Regulation 37/2005 and provide penalties for a failure to comply with that prohibition (regulation 2(e) and (f) and Schedule 1));

(b) provide an exception to that prohibition for a transitional period up to the 1st January 2010 (regulation 2(e), (g) and Schedule 2);

(c) revoke provisions of the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations 1990 which implemented Directive 92/1/EEC (O.J. No. L 34, 11.2.92, p.28) which was revoked by Regulation 37/2005 (regulation 2(b)(vi) and (d);

(d) update and supplement the interpretation provisions of the instrument (regulations 2(a) and (b)).

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business (and the voluntary sector) has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency (Scotland), 6th Floor, St Magnus House, 25 Guild Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6NJ.