SCHEDULE 5Medicated feedingstuffs and specified feed additives

Enforcement of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002

2.

(1)

For the purposes of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 (of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety34) the competent authority is the Secretary of State.

(2)

Any person who contravenes any of the following provisions of that Regulation is guilty of an offence—

(a)

Article 11 (requirements relating to imports);

(b)

Article 12 (requirements relating to exports);

(c)

Article 15 (1) (prohibition on the placing on the market or feeding unsafe feedingstuffs);

(d)

Article 16 so far as it prohibits misleading labelling, advertising or presentation of feedingstuffs;

(e)

Article 18 (2) and (3) (requirements of traceability) in so far as it relates to feed business operators; and

(f)

Article 20 (responsibilities of feed business operators).