The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023 No. 1286

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments for the purpose of, and in connection with, implementing the EEA EFTA free trade agreement

PART 4 Amendments in relation to food examiners

Amendments to the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2013

8.—(1) The Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), at the appropriate place, insert—

““specified state” means one of the states specified in Schedule 1 to the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023;”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (qualifications of food examiners)—

(a) in paragraph 6 of Part 1, after “a Member State of the European Union”, insert “or in a specified state”; and

(b) in paragraphs 2 and 4 of Part 2, after “a Member State of the European Union”, insert “or of a specified state”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/264. Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 have been amended by S.I. 2020/1504. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant to these Regulations.