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ReviewU.K.

3.—(1) The Food Standards Agency must from time to time —

(a)carry out a review of the operation and effect of regulation 2;

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Agency must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU instruments mentioned in paragraph (2) as read with paragraph (3) of regulation 2 are executed and enforced in other Member States.

(3) The report must in particular —

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory changes to the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 made by these Regulations;

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.