The Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Wales) Regulations 2013

Improvement notices – application of subsections (1) and (2) of section 10 of the Food Safety Act 1990E+W

7.—(1) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 10 of the Act (improvement notices) apply for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modifications.

(2) For subsection (1), substitute—

(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with a provision of the Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Wales) Regulations 2013 specified in paragraph (1A), the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Act referred to as an “improvement notice”)—

(a)state the officer's grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;

(b)specify the matters which constitute the person's failure so to comply;

(c)specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and

(d)require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.

(1A) Any EU provision specified in the first column of Table 2 of—

(a)Schedule 1;

(b)Schedule 2;

(c)Schedule 3; or

(d)Schedule 4; or

(e)regulation 13(2).