Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 1 applied in part (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Public Health, Marketing and Organic Product Standards and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/959), regs. 1(2), 4(b), Sch. 2 (with regs. 7, 8)
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) Regulations 2015, apply in relation to England only and come into force on 6th April 2015.
2.—(1) In these Regulations —
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“Regulation 178/2002” means 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 safety;
“Regulation 1829/2003” means Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed(1);
[F3“Regulation 1831/2003” means Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2294 amending Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of a new functional group of feed additives];
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“Regulation 767/2009” means Regulation (EC) No. 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC(2);
[F5“Regulation 2020/354” means Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/354 establishing a list of intended uses of feed intended for particular nutritional purposes and repealing Directive 2008/38/EC;]
“the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;
“feed authority” means an authority identified in section 67(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 as having the duty to enforce Part IV of that Act within its area or district as the case may be.
(2) Any expression used in these Regulations and in Regulation 178/2002, Regulation 1831/2003 [F6Regulation 767/2009 or Regulation 2020/354] has the meaning in these Regulations that it bears in the [F7retained] EU Regulation concerned.
[F8(3) Any reference to an F9... instrument defined in paragraph (1) is a reference to that F9... instrument as it may be amended from time to time.]
(4) These Regulations do not apply to any feed additive in category (d) or (e) of Article 6(1) of Regulation 1831/2003, with the exception of those in the functional groups listed in paragraph 4(a), (b) and (c) of Annex 1 to that Regulation(3).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a)(i)
F2Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a)(ii)
F3Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (17.4.2019) by The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/675), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)
F4Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (25.12.2020) by virtue of The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a)(i)
F5Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a)(ii)
F6Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(b)
F7Word in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(b)
F8Reg. 2(3) substituted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(c)
F9Word in reg. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(c)
Commencement Information
OJ No.L268, 18.10.2003, p.1. This Regulation was last amended by Regulation (EC) No 298/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L97, 9.4.2008, p.64).
OJ No. L229, 1.9.2009, p.1. This Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 939/2010 (OJ No. L277, 21.10.2010, p.4).
Categories (d) and (e) of Article 6(1) comprise, respectively, zootechnical additives and coccidiostats and histomonostats. Functional groups listed in paragraphs 4(a), (b) and (c) of Annex I comprise digestibility enhancers, gut flora stabilisers and substances which favourably affect the environment.