The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
In accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act, they have had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency.
Title and commencement1.
The title of these Regulations is The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and they come into force on 31 March 2011.
Amendment of the Food Additives (Wales) Regulations 20092.
(1)
(2)
In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—
(a)
at the end of the definition of “Directive 08/60” add the expression “as amended by Commission Directive 2010/37/EU amending Directive 2008/60 laying down specific purity criteria on sweeteners”; and
(b)
at the end of the definition of “Directive 08/84” add the expression “as amended by Commission Directive 2010/67/EU amending Directive 2008/84 laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners”.
These Regulations implement in Wales two European Directives concerned with the purity criteria for certain food additives (“the amending Directives”). The amending Directives are—
Commission Directive 2010/37/EU amending Directive 2008/60/EC laying down specific purity criteria on sweeteners (OJ No. L152, 18.6.2010, p.12); and
Commission Directive 2010/67/EU amending Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (OJ No. L277, 21.10.2010, p.17).
These Regulations implement the amending Directives by making amendments to regulation 2 of the Food Additives (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3378 (W.300)) so that the definitions of Directive 08/60 and Directive 08/84 in that regulation include reference to the relevant amending Directive (regulation 2(2)).