The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 704

PART 3 U.K. Amendment of retained direct EU legislation

27.  In Article 18—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) in the opening words, for “a Member State”, substitute “ the appropriate authority ”;

(ii) omit the second paragraph;

(b) for paragraph 2, substitute—

“2.   The appropriate authority must, having where appropriate obtained the advice of the Food Safety Authority, review the grounds referred to in paragraph 1 as soon as possible. If the appropriate authority considers that amendments to the relevant specific measures are necessary in order to remedy the difficulties referred to in paragraph 1 and to ensure the protection of human health, those amendments must be prescribed by the appropriate authority.”;

(c) omit paragraphs 3 and 4.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 27 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1