The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Title, commencement and extent

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002, shall come into force on 5th August 2002 and shall apply to Wales only.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001

2.  The Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 (“the principal Regulations”)(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 10 below.

3.  In each of regulations 7(1) and 24(1), after the expression “the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be added the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”.

4.  In paragraph (2) of regulation 17, for the expression “Schedule 10” there shall be substituted the expression “Schedule 9”.

5.  In paragraph (2) of regulation 24, for the word “regulations” to the end there shall be substituted the following provisions—

• “regulation 4 (except in so far as it relates to Part II of Schedule 5), 9(1) (in so far as it regulates putting into circulation), (2) and (3), 10(1) to (4), (6), (6A) and (7), 11(2) (in so far as it falls to be read with paragraph (3)(a), (c) or (d) of that regulation), (4), (6) and (7), 12(3), (4), (6), (7) and (9), 13(1), 15, 16(1) and 17(1).”.

6.  Regulation 25(a) and (b) shall be revoked.

7.  In Schedule 3 (permitted additives and provisions relating to their use), for the provisions in Part IX of the Table (European Community Regulations by which additives are controlled) there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

8.  In Schedule 7 (prescribed limits for undesirable substances)—

(a) for the entry for Dioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF) in column 1 of Chapter A of Part I of the Table and the corresponding entries in columns 2 and 3 respectively of that Chapter; and

(b) for the entry for Dioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF) in column 1 of Chapter A of Part II of the Table and the corresponding entries in columns 2 and 3 respectively of that Chapter;

there shall be substituted the entries set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

9.  In Schedule 8 (control of certain protein sources) for the entry in column 6 (“ruminants from the beginning of rumination”) corresponding with the entry in column 2 relating to “3.1.1 DL-methionine, technically pure” there shall be substituted the entry “All animal species”.

10.  In Schedule 9 (permitted feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes and provisions relating to their use) for the entries in columns 2 to 6 of Chapter A relating to the support of liver function in case of chronic liver insufficiency in dogs or cats there shall be substituted the entries set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999

11.  The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999(2) shall be amended in so far as they apply to Wales as follows—

(a) in Part II of Schedule 1 (manner of taking, preparing, marking, sealing and fastening of samples), in paragraph 5(1), for the expression “section 76(1)(b) of the Act” there shall be inserted the expression “section 76(7) of the Act as that section is modified by regulation 10 of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999(3) as amended”;

(b) in Part I of Schedule 2 (methods of analysis), at the end of paragraph 3(e)(ii), for the expression “Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted the expression “Schedule 7 to the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001(4) and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002; and

(c) in Part II of Schedule 3 (form of certificate of analysis), in note 11(a), for the expression “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted the expression “the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999

12.—(1) The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999(5) shall be amended in so far as they apply to Wales as specified in paragraph (2).

(2) In the provisions of those Regulations specified in paragraph (3), for the expression “as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and as modified by the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 and amended by the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be substituted the expression “as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”.

(3) The provisions are regulations 98(8) and (9), 99 and 106(1).

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

13.  The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 shall be amended in so far as they apply to Wales as follows—

(a) in paragraph (1) of regulation 2, for the definition of “third country” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““third country” means a country other than a State which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992(6) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(7);”;

(b) in each of paragraphs (2) and (4) of regulation 7, after the expression “the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be inserted the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”;

(c) in regulation 8, for the expression “as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and as modified by the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 and amended by the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be substituted the expression “as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”; and

(d) in regulation 9, in the text of subsection (8) of section 67 of the Agriculture Act 1970 shown as modified by that regulation, after the expression “the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be inserted the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”; and

(e) in regulation 10, in the text of subsection (17) of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970 shown as modified by that regulation, after the expression “the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001” there shall be inserted the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(8)

John Marek

The Deputy Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

9th July 2002