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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Bread and Flour Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the principal Regulations”).

The Regulations—

(a)

in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations, insert a definition of “enzyme preparation” and amend the definition of “flour treatment agent” to exclude enzyme preparations (regulation 2(a));

(b)

amend regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to more clearly provide that bread and flour lawfully produced in one member State and brought into Northern Ireland from another member State in which it was lawfully sold is exempt from the principal Regulations (regulation 2(b));

(c)

amend regulation 5 of the principal Regulations to remove the prohibition and restrictions on the use of enzyme preparations as ingredients of flour and bread and make a corresponding amendment to Schedule 3 (regulation 2(c) and (e) respectively).