Incorporation of certain premixtures into compound feeding stuffs
71.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall incorporate into a compound feeding stuff a premixture containing a substance used as a carrier, and containing any copper, selenium, vitamin A or vitamin D, but not containing a zootechnical additive, unless he incorporates it in a proportion of at least 0.2% by weight of the feeding stuff.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), but which prejudice to regulations 86 and 87, if the requirement as to premixtures specified in the second paragraph of Article 13.3 of Directive 70/524 is met in relation to the premixture concerned, a person may incorporate it into a compound feeding stuff, in any proportion of not less than 0.05% by weight of the feeding stuff, on—
(a)a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(b) establishment,
(b)an establishment (not being a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(b) establishment) as to which the competent body is satisfied that the conditions for approval as a UK approved Article 2.2(b) establishment are met, or
(c)an establishment (not being a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(b) establishment, or an establishment which the competent body has declined to approve as a UK approved Article 2.2(b) establishment)—
(i)on which, on 1st April 1998, a premixture containing a substance used as a carrier, and containing additives of any kind referred to in Chapter 1.2(a) of the Annex, was being manufactured in a proportion of less than 0.2% by weight of the feeding stuff, and
(ii)as to which—
(aa)before 1st September 1998, a request, (consideration of which is pending) was made to the competent body to satisfy itself that those conditions are met, or
(bb)in any case where the additives which the premixture contained included a zootechnical additive, before 1st October 1999 a request (consideration of which is pending) has been made to the competent body to satisfy itself that those conditions are met, accompanied by a declaration that, had the 1998 Regulations provided for such a request, there would have been no reason to prevent one being made before 1st September 1998.