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The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (England) Regulations 2008 (revoked)

UK Statutory Instrument 2008 No. 447 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
20 February 2008
In force from
31 March 2008
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
(EC) No. 178/2002, European Communities Act 1972, Schedule 2 to, the 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 apply in relation to England only. They revoke and replace the Meat (Official Controls Charges) (England) (No.2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3385). These Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement in relation to England of Articles 26 and 27 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; the revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum, OJ No. L191, 28.5.2004, p.1, which should be read with a further Corrigendum, OJ No. L204, 4.8.2007, p.29), in so far as those provisions - require or, in the case of certain types of poultry (e.g. quail) permit, fees to be collected to cover the costs occasioned by official controls performed on meat of domestic ungulates, meat from poultry and lagomorphs, meat of farmed game and meat of wild game under Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (OJ No. L139, 30.4.2004, p.206; the revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum, OJ No. L226, 25.6.2004, p.83, which should be read with a further Corrigendum, OJ No. L204, 4.8.2007, p.26) and; require fees to be collected to cover the costs occasioned by official controls performed to verify compliance with the animal welfare rules set out in Council Directive 93/119/EC (OJ No. L340, 31.12.93, p.21) in so far as they apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption at slaughterhouses. These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c.68) and any reference to a Community instrument defined in Schedule 1 is to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time. These Regulations — require the Agency to notify the operator of each slaughterhouse, game-handling establishment and cutting plant in which official controls have been exercised of the official controls charge that has arisen in relation to those officials controls (the terms “slaughterhouse”, “game-handling establishment”, “cutting plant”, “official controls” and “official controls charge” are all defined in regulation 2) (regulation 3); provide that any official controls charge so notified is payable by the operator to the Agency on demand (regulation 3); allow the Agency to refuse to exercise any further official controls at given premises where, despite a Court order requiring the operator of the premises to pay the official controls charge for which he is liable, he fails to comply with the order (regulation 4); require persons to supply the Agency on demand — with such information as it may reasonably require for the purpose of calculating the official controls charge or notifying the operator of it, and with such evidence as it may reasonably require to enable it to verify that information (regulation 5); and provide that persons to whom such a demand has been made commit an offence if — without reasonable excuse, they fail to comply within a reasonable time with the demand, or in purported compliance with the demand, they knowingly or recklessly furnish information or evidence that is false or misleading in a material particular (regulation5). Schedule 2 to these Regulations sets out how the official controls charge is to be calculated. An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Meat Hygiene and Veterinary Division of the Food Standards Agency at Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website.

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