The Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations 2006

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations —

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“authorised lettuce” means lettuce of the kind specified in point 1.3 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.2 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;

“authorised officer” means any person who is authorised in writing, either generally or specifically, by a food authority or as the case may be a port health authority to act in matters arising under these Regulations;

“authorised spinach” means spinach of the kind specified in point 1.1 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.1 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;

“the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 466/2001 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs(1) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 30th November 2001(2), and as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2375/2001(3), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 221/2002(4), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 257/2002(5), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 472/2002(6) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 23rd March 2002(7), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 563/2002(8) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 14th June 2002(9), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1425/2003(10), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2174/2003(11), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 242/2004(12), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 455/2004(13), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 655/2004(14), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 683/2004(15), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 684/2004(16), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 78/2005(17), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 123/2005(18), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 208/2005(19), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 856/2005(20) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1822/2005(21), and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 199/2006(22);

“food authority” includes neither the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple) nor a port health authority;

“port health authority” means —

(a)

in relation to the London port health district (within the meaning given to that phrase for the purposes of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(23) by section 7(1) of that Act), the Common Council of the City of London; and

(b)

in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act.

(2) Any other expression used in these Regulations and in the Commission Regulation has the same meaning in these Regulations as it bears in the Commission Regulation.

(1)

OJ No. L77, 16.3.2001, p.1. Article 1.3 of and Annex I to this Regulation specify the Community methods of sampling and analysis that are required to be used for the official control of levels of the substances covered by the Regulation. These methods are set out in Commission Directives 2001/22/EC, 2002/63/EC, 2002/69/EC, 2004/16/EC and 2005/10/EC, and in Commission Regulation (EC) 401/2006. More details of those instruments are given in the Explanatory Note to this instrument.

(2)

OJ No. L313, 30.11.2001, p.60.

(3)

OJ No. L321, 6.12.2001, p.1.

(4)

OJ No. L37, 7.2.2002, p.4.

(5)

OJ No. L41, 13.2.2002, p.12.

(6)

OJ No. L75, 16.3.2002, p.18.

(7)

OJ No. L80, 23.3.2002, p.42.

(8)

OJ No. L86, 3.4.2002, p.5.

(9)

OJ No. L155, 14.6.2002, p.63.

(10)

OJ No. L203, 12.8.2003, p.1.

(11)

OJ No. L326, 13.12.2003, p.12.

(12)

OJ No. L42, 13.2.2004, p.3

(13)

OJ No. L74, 12.3.2004, p.11.

(14)

OJ No. L104, 8.4.2004, p.48.

(15)

OJ No. L106, 15.4.2004, p.3.

(16)

OJ No. L106, 15.4.2004, p.6.

(17)

OJ No. L16, 20.1.2005, p.43.

(18)

OJ No. L25, 28.1.2005, p.3.

(19)

OJ No. L34, 8.2.2005, p.3.

(20)

OJ No. L143, 7.6.2005, p.3.

(21)

OJ No. L293, 9.11.2005, p.11.

(22)

OJ No. L32, 4.2.2006, p.34.

(23)

1984 c. 22.