30.—(1) The Food Standards Agency must from time to time —
(a)carry out a review of the operation and effect of regulations 1 to 27;
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Food Standards Agency must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU instruments are implemented or 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 system established by these Regulations;
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if they do, 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.
(6) In this regulation “the EU instruments” means Council Directive 78/142/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to materials and articles which contain vinyl chloride monomer and are intended to come into contact with foodstuffs(1), Directive 84/500/EEC, Directive 2007/42/EC, Regulation 1935/2004, Regulation 1895/2005, Regulation 2023/2006, Regulation 450/2009 and Regulation 10/2011.
OJ No. L44, 15.2.1978, p.15.