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The Animal Feedingstuffs from Belgium (Control) (England and Wales) (No. 3) Regulations 1999

UK Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2799 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
11 October 1999
In force from
12 October 1999
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

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 England and Wales, revoke, and re-enact with certain changes, the Animal Feedingstuffs from Belgium (Control) (England and Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2333 “the revoked Regulations”) and implement in England and Wales, in relation to products for animal feeding, Commission Decision 1999/640/EC on protective measures with regard to contamination by dioxins of certain products of porcine and poultry origin intended for human or animal consumption (OJ No. L253, 28.9.1999, p.19). Like the revoked Regulations, these Regulations define `controlled entity' (regulation 1(2)), prohibit (subject to exceptions (regulation 2)) the carrying out of specified operations in relation to them (regulation 3), specify the enforcement authorities (regulation 4) and apply with modifications provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 5). In addition to making minor changes to the revoked Regulations, these Regulations, by referring to Decision 1999/640/EC, make the following changes of substance— a they narrow the coverage of the revoked Order in that— i they do not apply to bovine animals, but only to pigs and poultry, and ii in relation to the categories of product derived from pigs and poultry to which they apply, they exclude certain material from the category “meat products and other products of animal origin”; b as a consequence of the fact that products of bovine animals are no longer controlled, they remove the exclusion of milk fat previously contained in the category “products intended for human consumption which contain other products of porcine or poultry origin, which contain more than 2% of animal fat”; c the controls in them apply irrespective of whether, in the case of poultry, pigs and eggs, these were reared/produced in holdings placed under restriction by Belgian authorities or, in the case of products derived from poultry or pigs, whether the animals concerned were so reared; d they reflect changes (consequential on the changes referred to in (a) to (c) above) to the certification requirements for the importation from Belgium of animals and animal products controlled by these Regulations, including the fact that there are no longer any conditions restricting the issue by Belgium of such certification, and e because those conditions no longer apply, they reflect the fact that the return of products to Belgium, in accordance with procedures set out in Article 5 of Decision 1999/640/EC, is now again permitted.

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