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4.—(1) No person may place on the market or use, in the course of a business in connection with the storage, preparation, packaging, sale or service of food any material or article that does not comply with the requirements of Article 3(1) (general requirements) or Article 4(1),(2),(3) or (4) (special requirements for active and intelligent materials and articles).
(2) No person may place on the market any material or article that does not comply with the requirements of Article 3(2), 4(5) or (6) or 15(1),(3),(4),(7) or (8) as read with Article 15(2) (labelling).
(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 11(4) or (5) (F1... authorisation) or 17(2) (traceability) is guilty of an offence.
(4) In this regulation a reference to a numbered Article is a reference to that Article in Regulation 1935/2004.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 4(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/704), regs. 1, 4; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
5. Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of Article 4 (conformity with good manufacturing practice) of Regulation 2023/2006 is guilty of an offence.
6.—(1) The following bodies are designated as the competent authorities for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 1935/2004 specified below —
(a)in respect of Articles 9 (application for authorisation of a new substance) F2..., the Food Standards Agency; and
(b)in respect of Articles [F316 ] (declaration of compliance) and 17(2) (traceability), the Food Standards Agency, each food authority in its area and each port health authority in its district.
(2) The competent authority for the purposes of Article 6(2) (quality control system) and 7(3) (documentation) of Regulation 2023/2006 is each food authority in its area.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in reg. 6(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/704), regs. 1, 5(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Word in reg. 6(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/704), regs. 1, 5(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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