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22. In this Part of these Regulations—
“authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”), in relation to an enforcement authority, means any person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who is authorised by them in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under the Import Provisions;
“the Commissioners” (“y Comisiynwyr”) means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;
“enforcement authority” (“awdurdod gorfodi”) means the feed authority or the food authority;
“feed” (“bwyd anifeiliaid”) does not include additives of a type mentioned in Article 6(1)(e) of or paragraph 4(d) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No.1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition M1 or any premixture consisting solely of a combination of such additives;
“outside Wales enforcement authority” (“awdurdod gorfodi y tu allan i Gymru”) means the body responsible for enforcing the legislation in force with respect to imported products in any part of the United Kingdom except Wales;
[F1“product” (“cynnyrch”) means feed and food whose import is regulated by Article 44 of Regulation 2017/625 and includes those composite products and foodstuffs which are not required to be subject to veterinary checks as provided in Commission Decision 2007/275/EC concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC;]
“the relevant territories” (“y tiriogaethau perthnasol”) means the territories referred to in Annex I to [F2Regulation 2017/625]; and
[F3“specified import provision” (“darpariaeth fewnforio benodedig”) means any provision of Regulation 2017/625 or the Regulation 2017/625 package that is specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6 and whose subject-matter is described in Column 2 of that Schedule.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 22 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 18(a)
F2Words in reg. 22 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 18(b)
F3Words in reg. 22 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 18(c)
Marginal Citations
M1OJ No. L268, 18.10.2003, p.29, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).
23.—(1) It is the responsibility of each feed authority to execute and enforce the Import Provisions in its area or district as the case may be in relation to feed.
(2) The feed authority is designated as the competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of [F4Regulation 2019/1793] in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant feed law.
(3) A feed authority's designation as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) extends to its area or district only, as the case may be.
F5(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F4Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 19(a)
F5Reg. 23(4) omitted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 19(b)
24.—(1) It is the responsibility of each food authority to execute and enforce the Import Provisions in its area in relation to food.
(2) The food authority is designated as the competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of [F6Regulation 2019/1793] in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant food law.
(3) A food authority's designation as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) extends to its area only.
F7(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F6Words in reg. 24(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 20(a)
F7Reg. 24(4) omitted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 20(b)
25. The Commissioners will carry out the functions given to [F8customs authorities under Articles 46, 57, 75 and 76 of Regulation 2017/625 and Article 4 of Regulation 2019/1793], in each case in relation to feed and food.
Textual Amendments
F8Words in reg. 25 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 21
26.—(1) The Commissioners, the Agency and any enforcement authority may exchange information for the purposes of the Import Provisions, and may divulge information to the bodies defined as enforcement authorities in the provisions corresponding to Part 3 of these Regulations in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland for the purposes of the Import Provisions or the provisions corresponding to the Import Provisions in those jurisdictions.
(2) Paragraph (1) is without prejudice to any other power of the Commissioners, the Agency or any enforcement authority to disclose information.
(3) No person, including a servant of the Crown, may disclose any information received from the Commissioners under paragraph (1) if—
(a)the information relates to a person whose identity—
(i)is specified in the disclosure; or
(ii)can be deduced from the disclosure;
(b)the disclosure is for a purpose other than the purposes specified in paragraph (1); and
(c)the Commissioners have not given their prior consent to the disclosure.
27.—(1) Subject to paragraph (6), where—
(a)a product from a third country has entered Wales;
(b)customs examination of that product has been completed or has been deferred until it reaches its place of destination elsewhere in the United Kingdom;
(c)an authorised officer of the enforcement authority for the place of entry has on reasonable grounds issued an authorisation confirming that—
(i)examination of the product for the purposes of the Import Provisions should be deferred until the product arrives at its destination elsewhere in Wales, or
(ii)such examination should take place when the product arrives at its destination elsewhere in the United Kingdom under legislation with respect to imported products in force there; and
(d)a person importing the product gives that authorised officer an undertaking in writing as to the matters specified in paragraph (2),
the enforcement authority for the place in which the destination is located, if in Wales, is responsible for enforcing and executing the Import Provisions with respect to that product once it arrives there.
(2) The undertaking must—
(a)state the destination of the product; and
(b)confirm that—
(i)the container containing the product has been sealed and will not be opened until it has reached that destination,
(ii)the opening of the container has been authorised by the enforcement authority for the place in which the destination is located, if it is in Wales or the outside Wales enforcement authority if the destination is not in Wales, and
(iii)the container will be available at that destination for examination under the Import Provisions or, as the case may be, legislation with respect to imported products in force elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
(3) Where an authorised officer of an enforcement authority issues an authorisation pursuant to paragraph (1)(c), he or she must—
(a)(if the product's place of destination is within Wales) notify the enforcement authority for that place or (if the product's place of destination is in any other part of the United Kingdom) notify the outside Wales enforcement authority—
(i)that the product (so described as to enable it to be identified) has not been examined under the Import Provisions, and
(ii)if customs examination of the product has been deferred, of that fact; and
(b)send the relevant authority a copy of any undertaking given pursuant to paragraph (1)(d).
(4) Where a product has been sent to a destination in Wales from another part of the British Islands and examination of that product has been deferred under legislation with respect to imported products in force there, the enforcement authority for the place of destination is responsible for enforcing and executing the Import Provisions with respect to that product once it arrives in Wales.
(5) No person may breach an undertaking given under paragraph (1)(d).
(6) The deferred execution and enforcement provisions set out in this regulation will be subject to any official controls that take place pursuant to [F9Article 47(1)(d) and (2)(b) and Article 54(4) of Regulation 2017/625].
Textual Amendments
F9Words in reg. 27(6) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 22
28.—(1) The following are prohibited—
(a)the introduction into Wales from a third country of specified feed that fails to comply with feed safety requirements;
(b)the introduction into Wales from elsewhere in the relevant territories of specified feed that originates in a third country and fails to comply with feed safety requirements;
(c)the introduction into Wales from a third country of specified food that fails to comply with—
(i)food safety requirements, or
(ii)the requirements of Articles 3 to 6 of Regulation 852/2004; and
(d)the introduction into Wales from elsewhere in the relevant territories of specified food that originates in a third country and fails to comply with—
(i)food safety requirements, or
(ii)the requirements of Articles 3 to 6 of Regulation 852/2004.
(2) In this regulation—
(a)“specified feed” means feed that is a product; and
(b)“specified food” means food that is a product.
29.—(1) The person responsible for introducing any product into Wales must permit an authorised officer of an enforcement authority to carry out checks in relation to the product pursuant to [F10Articles 34(5) and (6), 44(2) and 45(1), (2) and (4) of Regulation 2017/625].
(2) When an authorised officer is carrying out checks in relation to a product pursuant to [F10Articles 34(5) and (6), 44(2) and 45(1), (2) and (4) of Regulation 2017/625], the person introducing the product must provide the facilities and assistance which the authorised officer reasonably requires to carry them out.
(3) When an authorised officer of an enforcement authority is carrying out an identity check or a physical check on a product in accordance with [F10Articles 34(5) and (6), 44(2) and 45(1), (2) and (4) of Regulation 2017/625] the officer is entitled to require that the check takes place at a specified place.
Textual Amendments
F10Words in reg. 29 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 23
30.—(1) Where the Agency is satisfied that a border control post has ceased to comply with the requirements referred to in Article 64 of Regulation 2017/625 and Regulation 2019/1014 it may withdraw the designation of the border control post for all or for certain categories of animals and goods for which the designation was made by service on the operator of the border control post of a written notice to that effect.
(2) Where the Agency is satisfied that the conditions referred to in Article 63(1) of Regulation 2017/625 apply it may suspend the designation of the border control post for all or for certain categories of animals and goods for which the designation was made by service on the operator of the border control post of a written notice to that effect and if there is a serious risk to human or animal health the suspension may be with immediate effect.
(3) Upon service of a notice under paragraph (2), the border control post ceases to be a designated border control post to the extent specified in that notice until the suspension is removed by service by the Agency on the operator of the border control post of a written notice to that effect.
(4) Where the Agency is satisfied that it is reasonable to withdraw or suspend the designation for reasons other than those referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) it may do so for all or for certain categories of animals and goods for which the designation was made by service on the operator of the border control post of a written notice to that effect.]
Textual Amendments
F11Reg. 30 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 24
31.—(1) An enforcement authority has the power to do anything that a competent authority may do under [F12Articles 46, 65 to 69, 71, and 72 of Regulation 2017/625] if the conditions set out in those Articles are fulfilled.
[F13(2) The measures taken by the enforcement authority under Articles 66, 67 and 69 of Regulation 2017/625 pursuant to paragraph (1) are to be taken at the expense of the operator responsible for the consignment.]
Textual Amendments
F12Words in reg. 31(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 25(a)
F13Reg. 31(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 25(b)
32.—(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority proposes to place a consignment of feed or food under official detention under Article 65, 66 or 67 of Regulation 2017/625 the officer must serve a notice to that effect on the operator responsible for it.
(2) Before ordering the operator to take action in accordance with Article 66(3)(a), (b) or (c), the enforcement officer must hear that operator as provided in the fourth subparagraph of Article 66(3) of Regulation 2017/625 unless immediate action is necessary.
(3) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority proposes to take any of the measures referred to in Article 66 or 67 of Regulation 2017/625 in respect of a consignment of feed or food, the officer must serve a notice to that effect on the operator responsible for it.]
Textual Amendments
F14Reg. 32 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 26
33.—(1) Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of an authorised officer of an enforcement authority to serve a notice under regulation 32 may appeal to a magistrates' court.
(2) The procedure on an appeal to a magistrates' court under paragraph (1) is by way of complaint for an order, and the magistrates' Courts Act 1980 applies to the proceedings.
(3) The period within which an appeal under paragraph (1) may be brought is one month from the date on which the notice was served on the person desiring to appeal and the making of a complaint for an order will be deemed for the purposes of this paragraph to be the bringing of the appeal.
(4) Where on an appeal under paragraph (1) a magistrates' court determines that the decision of the authorised officer of the enforcement authority is incorrect, the authority must give effect to the determination of the court.
34. A person who is aggrieved by the dismissal by a magistrates' court of an appeal to it under regulation 33(1) may appeal to the Crown Court.
35.—(1) Where the Welsh Ministers or the Agency learns or has reasonable grounds to suspect that any food or feed that has been or may be introduced into Wales from a third country is likely to constitute a serious risk to animal or public health, they each have the power to issue a written declaration suspending or imposing conditions on the introduction into Wales of any product from the whole or any part of that third country.
(2) Such a declaration must be published in such manner as the person who issued it thinks fit and must specify the product and the third country or part thereof concerned.
(3) A declaration which imposes conditions on the introduction of any product from a third country or part thereof must specify those conditions.
(4) Where a declaration is in force suspending the introduction of any product, no person may introduce that product into Wales if it originates in the third country or part thereof specified in the declaration.
(5) Where a declaration is in force imposing conditions on the introduction of any product, no person may introduce that product into Wales if it originates in the third country or part thereof specified in the declaration unless the product complies with conditions specified in the declaration.
(6) A declaration may be modified, suspended or revoked by a further written declaration published, so far as is practicable, in the same manner and to the same extent as the original declaration.
[F1536.—(1) The costs incurred by the enforcement authority in taking the measures for which the operator is liable under Articles 66, 67 and 69 of Regulation 2017/625 are payable by the operator on the written demand of the enforcement authority.
(2) The costs of official controls and other activities as referred to in Article 80 of Regulation 2017/625 are payable by the operator on the written demand of the enforcement authority.]
Textual Amendments
F15Reg. 36 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 27
37. An authorised officer of a food authority may, for the purposes of the execution and enforcement by that authority of the Import Provisions—
(a)purchase a sample of any food, or any substance capable of being used in the preparation of food;
(b)take a sample of any food, or any such substance, which—
(i)appears to the officer to be intended for placing on the market or to have been placed on the market, for human consumption, or
(ii)is found by the officer on or in any premises which he or she is authorised to enter by or under regulation 39;
(c)take a sample from any food source, or a sample of any contact material, which is found by the officer on or in any such premises; and
(d)take a sample of any article or substance which is found by the officer on or in any such premises and which he or she has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under any of the provisions of the Import Provisions.
38.—(1) An authorised officer of a food authority who has procured a sample under regulation 37 must—
(a)if the officer considers that the sample should be analysed, submit it to be analysed by a public analyst;
(b)if the officer considers that the sample should be examined, submit it to be examined by a food examiner.
(2) A person, other than such an officer, who has purchased any food, or any substance capable of being used in the preparation of food, may submit a sample of it—
(a)to be analysed by the public analyst for the area in which the purchase was made; or
(b)to be examined by a food examiner.
(3) If, in any case where a sample is proposed to be submitted for analysis under this regulation, the office of public analyst for the area in question is vacant, the sample must be submitted to the public analyst for some other area.
(4) If, in any case where a sample is proposed to be or is submitted for analysis or examination under this regulation, the food analyst or examiner determines that he or she is for any reason unable to perform the analysis or examination, the sample must be submitted or, as the case may be, sent by him or her to such other food analyst or examiner as he or she may determine.
(5) A food analyst or examiner must analyse or examine as soon as practicable any sample submitted or sent to him or her under this regulation, but may, except where—
(a)he or she is the public analyst for the area in question; and
(b)the sample is submitted to him or her for analysis by an authorised officer of a food authority,
demand in advance the payment of such reasonable fee as he or she may require.
(6) Any food analyst or examiner who has analysed or examined a sample must give to the person by whom it was submitted a certificate specifying the result of the analysis or examination.
(7) Any certificate given by a food analyst or examiner under paragraph (6) must be signed by him or her, but the analysis or examination may be made by any person acting under his or her direction.
(8) In any proceedings under the Import Provisions, the production by one of the parties—
(a)of a document purporting to be a certificate given by a food analyst or examiner under paragraph (6); or
(b)of a document supplied to him or her by the other party as being a copy of such a certificate,
is sufficient evidence of the facts stated in it unless, in a case falling within sub-paragraph (a), the other party requires that the food analyst or examiner is called as a witness.
(9) Any reference in this regulation to a public analyst for a given area is, where two or more public analysts have been appointed for that area, to be construed as a reference to either or any of them.
(10) [F16The Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (Wales) Regulations 2013] apply in relation to a sample procured by an authorised officer of a food authority under regulation 37 as if it were a sample procured by an authorised officer under section 29 of the Act.
(11) The certificate given by a food analyst or examiner under paragraph (6) must be in the form set out in Schedule 3 to [F16the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (Wales) Regulations 2013] .
Textual Amendments
39.—(1) An authorised officer of a food authority, on producing, if so required, some duly authenticated document showing his or her authority, has a right at all reasonable hours—
(a)to enter any premises within the authority's area for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been on the premises any contravention of the provisions of the Import Provisions in relation to food;
(b)to enter any premises, whether within or outside the authority's area, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is on the premises any evidence of any such contravention within that area; and
(c)to enter any premises for the purpose of the performance by the authority of their functions under the Import Provisions,
but admission to any premises used only as a private dwelling-house may not be demanded as of right unless 24 hours' notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.
(2) If a justice of the peace, on sworn information in writing, is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for entry onto any premises for any such purpose as is mentioned in paragraph (1) and either—
(a)that admission to the premises has been refused, or a refusal is apprehended, and that notice of the intention to apply for a warrant has been given to the occupier; or
(b)that an application for admission, or the giving of such a notice, would defeat the object of the entry, or that the case is one of urgency, or that the premises are unoccupied or the occupier is temporarily absent,
the justice may by warrant signed by him or her authorise the authorised officer to enter the premises, if need be by reasonable force.
(3) Every warrant granted under this regulation continues in force for a period of one month.
(4) An authorised officer entering any premises by virtue of this regulation, or of a warrant issued under it, may take with him or her such other persons as the officer considers necessary, and on leaving any unoccupied premises which the officer has entered by virtue of such a warrant must leave them as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as that in which they were found.
(5) An authorised officer entering premises by virtue of this regulation, or of a warrant issued under it, may inspect any records (in whatever form they are held) relating to a food business and, where any such records are stored in any electronic form—
(a)may have access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the records; and
(b)may require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material to afford him or her such assistance as he may reasonably require.
(6) Any officer exercising any power conferred by paragraph (5) may—
(a)seize and detain any records which he or she has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under any of the provisions of the Import Provisions; and
(b)where the records are stored in any electronic form, require the records to be produced in a form in which they may be taken away.
(7) If any person who enters any premises by virtue of this regulation, or of a warrant issued under it, discloses to any person any information obtained by him or her on the premises with regard to any trade secret, he or she is, unless the disclosure was made in the performance of his or her duty, guilty of an offence.
(8) Nothing in this regulation authorises any person, except with the permission of the local authority under the Animal Health Act 1981, to enter any premises—
(a)on which an animal or bird affected with any disease to which that Act applies is kept; and
(b)which is situated in a place declared under that Act to be infected with such a disease.
40.—(1) Any person who—
(a)intentionally obstructs any person acting in the execution of the Import Provisions; or
(b)without reasonable cause, fails to give to any person acting in the execution of the Import Provisions any assistance or information which that person may reasonably require of him or her for the performance of his or her functions under the Import Provisions,
is guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who, in purported compliance with any such requirement as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)furnishes information which that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b)recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular,
is guilty of an offence.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) is to be construed as requiring any person to answer any question or give any information if to do so might incriminate him or her.
41.—(1) Any person who—
(a)contravenes or fails to comply with any of the specified [F17import] provisions;
(b)contravenes or fails to comply with paragraph (3) of regulation 26, paragraph (5) of regulation 27 or paragraph (4) or (5) of regulation 35;
(c)contravenes any of the prohibitions in paragraph (1) of regulation 28;
(d)to the extent that contravention or failure to comply with regulation 29 does not constitute an offence under regulation 40, contravenes or fails to comply with regulation 29; or
(e)fails to comply with a notice served upon him under the Import Provisions,
is guilty of an offence.
[F18(1A) Any person who imports into Wales or places on the market any sprouts or seeds intended for sprouting which do not comply with the certification requirements of Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 211/2013 on certification requirements for imports into the Union of sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts shall be guilty of an offence.]
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person guilty of an offence under this Part of these Regulations will be liable—
(a)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or
(b)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, to a fine or to both.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under regulation 40 will be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.
Textual Amendments
F17Word in reg. 41(1)(a) inserted (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2652), regs. 1, 16(4)
F18Reg. 41(1A) inserted (31.12.2013) by The Food Safety, Food Hygiene and Official Controls (Sprouting Seeds) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3007), regs. 1(2), 4(3)
42. No prosecution for an offence under this Part of these Regulations which is punishable under regulation 41(2) may be begun after the expiry of—
(a)three years from the commission of the offence; or
(b)one year from its discovery by the prosecutor,
whichever is the earlier.
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