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These Regulations, which apply to England, implement Council Directive 2001/110/EC concerning honey (OJ No. L10, 12.1.2002, p.48). They revoke and replace the Honey Regulations 1976, as amended, in relation to England.
The Regulations—
(a)prescribe definitions and reserved descriptions for certain specified honey products (regulation 2 and Schedules 1 and 2);
(b)restrict the use of reserved descriptions to the specified honey products to which they relate (regulation 3);
(c)prescribe labelling requirements for such products (regulations 4, 5 and 6);
(d)specify a penalty, enforcement authorities and, in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Council Directive 89/397/EEC on the official control of foodstuffs (OJ No. L186, 30.6.89, p.23), a defence in relation to exports (regulations 7 and 8);
(e)apply various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 9);
(f)revoke the previous Regulations and make consequential amendments and transitional provisions (regulations 10 and 11).
A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Library of each House of Parliament, together with a Transposition Note setting out how the main elements of the European legislation referred to above are transposed in these Regulations. Copies may be obtained from the Food Labelling and Standards Division of the Food Standards Agency, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH.
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