UK Offence Report

The Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995

UK Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1544 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
14 June 1995
In force from
10 July 1995
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
European Communities Act 1972, Food Safety Act 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, supersede the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1985 and make provision for the enforcement and execution of specified regulations of the European Communities which relate to marketing standards for shell eggs and to the production and marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks. The principal changes made by these Regulations to the 1985 Regulations are the introduction of more detailed labelling requirements following the further amendment of Council Regulation EEC No. 1907/90 and Commission Regulation EC No. 1274/91. (The amending instruments are specified in the Schedule, items 1 and 2). The Regulations also imelement the public health conditions in relation to the sale of shell eggs and to the use of eggs in catering kitchens laid down by Council Decision 94/371/EC. These Regulations are made under and incorporate provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990. The Regulations— a implement the public health conditions laid down by Council Decision 94/371/EC (regulation 3); b designate the authorities who are to enforce the Community provisions (regulation 4); c give authorised officers of the Minister specified powers (regulation 5); d give the Minister power to require specified persons to keep records and supply information (regulation 7); e prescribe the form of the official mark which may be used under the Community provisions (regulation 7); f create an offence and prescribe a penalty (regulation 8); g provide that descriptions and marks applied in pursuance of a Community provision shall not be trade descriptions under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (regulation 9). A compliance cost assessment of the effect that these Regulations would have on the cost of business is available from: Pigs, Eggs and poultry Dviision Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Room 201 Whitehall Place (East Block) London SW1A 2HH.

Offences created by this instrument

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source