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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/breakfast-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2026/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Breakfast Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/breakfast-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement Council Directive 2024/1438 (the Breakfast Directive) which itself amends Council Directives 2001/110/EC relating to honey (the Honey Directive), 2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products intended for human consumption (the Fruit Juice Directive), 2001/113/EC relating to fruit jams, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut purée intended for human consumption (the Jams Directive), and 2001/114/EC relating to certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption (the Dehydrated Milk Directive).\nThe Regulations—\namend the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 to implement the amendments made by the Breakfast Directive to the Honey Directive (regulation 3) in particular to remove references to ‘filtered honey’ and amending labelling requirements;\namend the Jam and Similar Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 to implement the amendments made by the Breakfast Directive to the Jams Directive (regulation 4) in particular amending the compositional criteria of regulated products;\namend the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 to implement the amendments made by the Breakfast Directive to the Fruit Juices Directive (regulation 5) in particular to regulate reduced sugar products, amend the compositional criteria of some regulated products and include coconut juice within regulated products; and\namend the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 to implement the amendments made by the Breakfast Directive to the Dehydrated Milk Directive (regulation 6) in particular amending the compositional criteria of some regulated products.\nA transposition note and an impact assessment of the effect that this Statutory Rule will have on the costs to business and the voluntary sector are attached to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the Statutory Rule on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/5/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:36.468426+00:00"
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  "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."
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