The Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Amendment of the principal Regulations

4.  Regulation 3 (designation of authority for the reception of notifications and operation of inspection system, and information to local authorities) of the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for the words “Food from Britain” there shall be substituted the words “the appropriate Minister”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b) for the words “the Minister” there shall be substituted the words “the appropriate Minister”;

(c) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) Where, following the attempted exercise of a function under Article 9.9 or 10.3 by the appropriate Minister or an inspection body, the appropriate Minister or such inspection body, as the case may be, has reason to believe that any person is using in any local authority area any indication which the appropriate Minister and the inspection body are required by that Article to prevent him from using—

(a) the appropriate Minister or the inspection body, as appropriate, shall notify in writing that use to the local authority of that area;

(b) where the notification referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above is given by a private inspection authority, it shall also notify in writing that use to the appropriate Minister, and

(c) the appropriate Minister or the inspection authority, as the case may be, giving such notification shall give the local authority any information which the local authority may reasonably require for the purpose of enforcement under regulation 6 in relation to the use of that indication.”