PART 1General

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“authorised officer” means any person who has written authority from an enforcement authority to act in matters arising under or in relation to the Act or these Regulations;

“breeding establishment” has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008;

“chicks” has the meaning given by Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008;

“Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs for hatching and farmyard poultry chicks M1, as amended from time to time;

“Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs M2, as amended from time to time;

“Single CMO Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) M3, as amended from time to time;

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F2“Council Regulation 2013” means Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 , as amended from time to time,

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F4“eggs”—

(a)

has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (k) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008 in the definition of “Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008” in this regulation, regulations 3(1)(b), (2)(b) and (c), Part 3, regulations 13, 15 and 17(2)(b) and Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(b)

means eggs to which Regulation (EC) No. 2160/2003 applies as read with the exception in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No. 2160/2003 in regulation 3(1)(c), Part 3A, regulation 13A, 15A and Schedule 2A to these Regulations;

“eggs for hatching” has the meaning given by Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008;

“enforcement authority” means an authority exercising a function conferred on it by F5regulation 15 or 15A;

“final consumer” has the meaning given by sub paragraph (r) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008;

“food authority” has the same meaning as in section 5(2) M4 of the Act;

“hatchery” has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(c) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008;

“packing centre” has the meaning given by sub paragraph (q) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008;

“pedigree breeding establishment” has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008; and

“production site” has the meaning given by sub paragraph (p) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008.

F6“Regulation (EC) No. 2160/2003” means Regulation (EC) No. 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents F7, as last amended by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013;

F8“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 F9... F10, as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

F11“the Scottish welfare regulations” means the Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010, and

F11“third country” means any country or territory other than—

  1. (i)

    the United Kingdom,

  2. (ii)

    the Bailiwick of Guernsey,

  3. (iii)

    the Bailiwick of Jersey, and

  4. (iv)

    the Isle of Man.

(2)

Any expression not defined in paragraph (1) and used in Part 2 of, or Schedule 1 to, these Regulations, and in Part C of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation has the same meaning in those provisions of these Regulations as it does in the Single CMO Regulation.

(3)

Any expression not defined in paragraph (1) and used in regulation 3(2) or Part 3 of, or Schedule 2 to, these Regulations and in F12Part VI of Annex VII to Council Regulation 2013 or Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008, has the same meaning in those provisions of these Regulations as it does in the EC Regulation in which it is used.

(4)

Any reference to a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision mentioned in Schedule 1 means a contravention or failure to comply with any provision of–

(a)

the Single CMO Regulation mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or

(b)

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 617/2008 mentioned in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part F13... F14or the Council Regulation 2013 mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part;

(5)

Any reference to a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision mentioned in Schedule 2 means a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision of–

(a)

F15the Council Regulation 2013 mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or

(b)

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008 mentioned in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part.

F16(6)

Any reference to a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision mentioned in Schedule 2A means a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision of Regulation (EC) No. 2160/2003 mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 2A.