UK Offence Report

The Charges for Residues Surveillance Regulations 2006

UK Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 2285 — creates 2 criminal offences.

2offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
22 August 2006
In force from
1 October 2006
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
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— a require fees to be paid for the Secretary of State’s surveillance of animals and animal products for residues of veterinary medicinal products and other substances (regulation 3(1)); b lay down provisions relating to the liability for and recovery of fees (regulation 3); c enable the Secretary of State to require information and supporting evidence to be supplied to him for the purpose of enabling him to calculate fees (regulation 4(1)); d create offences of failing to comply with a demand to supply information and supplying false or misleading information (regulation 4); e revoke the Charges for Inspections and Controls Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2893) (regulation 5); and f make transitional provision for agreements made under any of the revoked instruments (regulation 6). Changes to fees (by comparison with the Charges for Inspections and Controls Regulations 1997), ranging approximately from decreases of 25% to increases of 45%, are itemised in the table below. Other sums are the same as before. Type of creature or product Current sum (£) Replacement sum (£) Bovine 0.4246 0.4352 per carcase Goat 0.0387 0.0561 Sheep 0.0387 0.0561 Swine 0.0831 0.0707 Eggs 0.0104 0.0129 per 360 Milk 0.0212 0.0244 per 1000 litres Salmon 1.8590 2.0449 per tonne of marketed product Trout: brown and rainbow 1.5730 1.7303 per tonne of fish food An additional change is that the Secretary of State is required to publicise the appointment of fish feed manufacturers as his agent for the collection of the charge for the inspection and control of brown trout and rainbow trout (regulation 3(9)). A further change is that it is now an offence knowingly to supply false or misleading information to the Secretary of State for the purpose of calculating charges payable under these Regulations, whether or not it is requested by the Secretary of State (regulation 4(3)). Previously, only supplying false or misleading information in response to such a request was an offence. These Regulations give effect, until 1st January 2007, to Article 2 of Council Directive 85/73/EEC on the financing of veterinary inspections and controls covered by Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC (OJ No. L32, 5.2.85, p. 14) (‘the old rules’), which was last amended by Council Directive 97/79/EC (OJ No. L24, 30.1.98, p. 31). From 1st January 2007, these Regulations give effect (except for honey) to Article 27, as read with Annex IV Section A, of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (OJ No. L165, 30.4.2004, p.1, as corrected by the corrigendum in OJ No. L191, 28.5.2004, p. 1) instead of the old rules (see the entry for poultry in Schedule 1). A Regulatory Impact Assessment of the effect of this instrument on the costs of business has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament. Copies are available from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3LS.

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