PART 2Food additives, flavourings and enzymes
Offence of contravening EU requirements on food additives3
Any person who contravenes, or who uses or places on the market a product that fails to comply with, any of the provisions of Regulation 1333/2008 specified in the first column of Table 1 of Schedule 1, as read with transitional measures contained in or to be read with that Regulation, commits an offence.
Offence of contravening EU requirements on flavourings, including smoke flavourings4
Any person who contravenes, or who uses or places on the market a product which fails to comply with, any of the provisions of Regulation 1334/2008 specified in the first column of Table 1 of Schedule 2, as read with Article 4 (flavouring substances under evaluation) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 872/2012 adopting the list of flavouring substances provided for by Regulation (EC) No 2232/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council M1 and with transitional measures contained in or to be read with Regulation 1334/2008, commits an offence.
5
Any person who contravenes, or who uses or places on the market a product which fails to comply with, any of the provisions of Regulation 2065/2003 specified in the first column of Table 1 of Schedule 3, as read with Article 20 (transitional measures), commits an offence.
Offence of contravening EU requirements on food enzymes6
Any person who contravenes, or who uses or places on the market a product which fails to comply with, any of the provisions of Regulation 1332/2008 specified in the first column of Table 1 of Schedule 4, as read with Articles 18 and 24 (transitional measures), commits an offence.
Compliance notices7
1
If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any person has not complied with, is not complying with, or is not likely to comply with —
a
any EU provision specified in the first column of Table 2 of Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 4; or
b
regulation 13(2),
the officer may serve a compliance notice on that person.
2
A compliance notice must state —
a
the steps the person must take;
b
the date and, if appropriate, the time by which each step must be taken;
c
the reason for the service of the notice and for the steps required to be taken;
d
that a failure to comply with the notice is an offence; and
e
the details of the right to appeal against the notice under regulation 8.
3
An authorised officer may serve a notice on a person withdrawing, varying or suspending a compliance notice.
4
Any person who fails to comply with a compliance notice served on them commits an offence.
Appeal against a compliance notice8
1
Any person served with a compliance notice may appeal against that notice to a magistrates' court.
2
The procedure on appeal to a magistrates' court under paragraph (1) shall be by way of complaint for an order, and the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 M2 shall apply to the proceedings.
3
The period within which an appeal under paragraph (1) may be brought shall be one month from the date on which the compliance notice was served on the person wishing to appeal and the making of a complaint for an order shall be deemed for the purposes of this paragraph to be the bringing of the appeal.
4
A compliance notice is not suspended pending an appeal unless —
a
an authorised officer suspends it under regulation 7(3); or
b
the court directs that it be suspended.
5
The court may —
a
confirm the notice or any requirement contained in it;
b
vary the notice or any requirement contained in it; or
c
revoke the notice or any requirement contained in it.