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Regulation 2 Interpretation and scope

England and Wales

(1)

In these Regulations—

  • “the Agency” (“yr Asiantaeth”) means the Food Standards Agency;

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  • F2...

  • “feed authority” (“awdurdod bwyd anifeiliaid”) means an authority identified in section F367(1A) of the Agriculture Act 1970 as having the duty to enforce Part IV of that Act within its area;

  • “Regulation 178/2002” (“Rheoliad 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 M1;

  • “Regulation 1829/2003” (“Rheoliad 1829/2003”) means Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed M2;

  • “Regulation 1831/2003” (“Rheoliad 1831/2003”) means Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition M3;

  • “Regulation 767/2009” (“Rheoliad 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 M4;

  • F4“Regulation 2020/354” (“Rheoliad 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;

(2)

Any expression used in these Regulations and in Regulation 178/2002, Regulation 1831/2003 or Regulation 767/2009 has the meaning in these Regulations that it bears in F5Regulation 178/2002, Regulation 1831/2003 or Regulation 767/2009, respectively.

F6(3)

Any reference in these Regulations to an F7... instrument defined in paragraph (1) is a reference to that ... instrument as it may be amended from time to time.

(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 M5.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1362), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(i)

F2

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (25.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Feed (Particular Nutritional Purposes and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1381), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)

F3

Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1362), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii)

F4

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Particular Nutritional Purposes and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1381), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)

F5

Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1332), regs. 1(2), 18(2)

F6

Reg. 2(3) substituted (25.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Particular Nutritional Purposes and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1381), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)

F7

Word in reg. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1362), regs. 1, 4(2)(c)

Marginal citations

M1

OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p 1. This Regulation was last amended by Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 189, 27.6.2014, p 1).

M2

OJ No L 268, 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 L 97, 9.4.2008, p 64).

M3

OJ No L 268, 18.10.2003, p 29. This Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 2015/2294 (OJ No L 324, 10.12.2015, p 3).

M4

OJ No L 229, 1.9.2009, p 1. This Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 939/2010 (OJ No L 277, 21.10.2010, p 4).

M5

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.

Notes on Part 1

Modifications

C1

Pt. 1 applied in part (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Public Health, Marketing and Organic Product Standards and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/959), regs. 1(2), 4(b), Sch. 2 (with regs. 7, 8)