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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-composition-marketing-and-use-england-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/255",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-composition-marketing-and-use-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and scope",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations —\n...\n...\n“Regulation 178/2002” means Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety;\n“Regulation 1829/2003” means Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed;\n“Regulation 1831/2003” means Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2294 amending Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of a new functional group of feed additives;\n...\n“Regulation 767/2009” means Regulation (EC) No. 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC;\n“Regulation 2020/354” means Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/354 establishing a list of intended uses of feed intended for particular nutritional purposes and repealing Directive 2008/38/EC;\n“the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;\n“feed authority” means an authority identified in section 67(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 as having the duty to enforce Part IV of that Act within its area or district as the case may be.\n(2) Any expression used in these Regulations and in Regulation 178/2002, Regulation 1831/2003 Regulation 767/2009 or Regulation 2020/354 has the meaning in these Regulations that it bears in the assimilated Regulation concerned.\n(3) Any reference to an ... instrument defined in paragraph (1) is a reference to that ... instrument as it may be amended from time to time.\n(4) These Regulations do not apply to any feed additive in category (d) or (e) of Article 6(1) of Regulation 1831/2003, with the exception of those in the functional groups listed in paragraph 4(a), (b) and (c) of Annex 1 to that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (17.4.2019) by The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/675), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (25.12.2020) by virtue of The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(2) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) substituted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No.L268, 18.10.2003, p.1. This Regulation was last amended by Regulation (EC) No 298/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L97, 9.4.2008, p.64)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L229, 1.9.2009, p.1. This Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 939/2010 (OJ No. L277, 21.10.2010, p.4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Categories (d) and (e) of Article 6(1) comprise, respectively, zootechnical additives and coccidiostats and histomonostats. Functional groups listed in paragraphs 4(a), (b) and (c) of Annex I comprise digestibility enhancers, gut flora stabilisers and substances which favourably affect the environment."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/255/regulation/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}