The Food Safety (Fishery Products) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994

13.—(1) In sub-paragraph (c) of the unnumbered paragraph in Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (health control and monitoring of production conditions)—

(a) for the words “registered in a member State of the European Community” there shall be substituted the words “wherever registered”;

(b) in head (i), after the words “conditions of approval” there shall be inserted the words “(where applicable)”; and

(c) in head (iv), before the words “identification marks” there shall be inserted the words “any necessary”.

(2) After Section C of Part II of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted the following Section—

“D. Microbiological analyses

1.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the microbiological standards applicable to the production of cooked crustaceans and molluscan shellfish are those set out in Commission Decision 93/51/EEC on the microbiological criteria applicable to the production of cooked crustaceans and molluscan shellfish(1).

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the reference in article 2 of Commission Decision 93/51/EEC to a processing plant shall be treated as if it were a reference to an establishment or factory vessel which has been approved for processing fishery products in accordance with regulation 9.

2.— (1) The sampling programme to be established in accordance with article 3 of Commission Decision 93/51/EEC, as provided for in—

(a) paragraph 5A of Section II of Chapter I; and

(b) paragraph 7(c) of Section IV of Chapter IV,

of the Schedule to the Food Safety (Fishery Products) (Derogations) Regulations 1992 shall be monitored by the food authority which approved the establishment or factory vessel in question.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) the reference in article 3(1) of Commission Decision 93/51/EEC to the requirements of article 6 of Directive 91/493/EEC shall be treated as if it were a reference to the provisions of Schedule 5; and

(b) the reference in the first indented paragraph of article 3(2) of that Commission Decision to competent authorities shall be treated is if it were a reference to the food authority mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).”.

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OJ No. L 13, 21.1.93, p.11.