The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Title, commencement and extent E+W

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st May 2003.

(2) These Regulations shall apply to Wales only.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 E+W

2.  The Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation), after the definition of “energy value” in paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following definition —

““the Enforcement Directive” (“y Gyfarwyddeb Gorfodi”) means Council Directive 95/53/EC fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition(2) as amended by Council Directive 1999/20/EC(3), Directive 2000/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) and Directive 2001/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(5);”.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 3 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

4.  In each of regulations 7(1) and 24(1), for the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002” there shall be substituted the expression “, the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002 and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003.”.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 4 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

5.  In regulation 12 (control of feeding stuffs and feed materials containing undesirable substances), for paragraph (9) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(9) Where a person to whom the first paragraph of Article 16a of the Enforcement Directive applies has evidence that any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 7, which he has brought into Wales from a third country or put into circulation and which he holds or owns, contains any substance specified in column 1 of that Chapter in excess of the level specified in relation to it in column 3 of that Chapter, he shall —

(a) notify the Food Standards Agency and the authority which, by virtue of section 67(1A), has the duty to enforce Part IV of the Act in relation to the feed material concerned; and

(b) supply them with the information specified in the second paragraph of Article 16a of the Enforcement Directive.”.

Commencement Information

I5 Reg. 5 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

6.  In Schedule 3 (permitted additives and provisions relating to their use) —

(a) for the footnote to Part VII of the Table (permitted preservatives) there shall be substituted the following footnote —

“(1) Note also that (as referred to in Part IX of this Table) one preservative is permitted by virtue of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1594/1999(6) and one by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1252/2002(7).”; and

(b) 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 the Schedule to these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I6 Reg. 6 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 E+W

7.—(1) Insofar as they apply to Wales, the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999(8) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of this regulation.

(2) In each of the provisions specified in paragraph 3, for the expression “and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002” there shall be inserted the expression “, the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002 and the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003”.

(3) The provisions are regulations 7(2) and (4), the text of subsection (8) of section 67 of the Agriculture Act 1970(9) shown as modified by regulation 9 and the text of subsection (17) of section 76 of that Act shown as modified by regulation 10.

Commencement Information

I7 Reg. 7 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

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

8.—(1) Insofar as they apply to Wales, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999(10) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph 2 of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 2 (definition of “feedingstuff” and related definitions and general interpretation), at the end of the definition of “Directive 95/53” there shall be added the words “, Directive 2000/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2001/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council”.

Commencement Information

I8 Reg. 8 in force at 1.5.2003, see reg. 1(1)

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(11)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

2nd April 2003