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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cocoa-and-chocolate-products-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/291",
  "legislation_title": "The Cocoa and Chocolate Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cocoa-and-chocolate-products-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;\n“designated product” means any cocoa or chocolate product specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, as read with any Note to that Schedule and any provision of regulation 3 and Schedule 2 relating to that product; and “designated cocoa product” and “designated chocolate product” mean any such product which is respectively a cocoa product or a chocolate product;\n“Directive 2000/36/EC” means Council Directive 2000/36/EC relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption ;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;\n“other edible substances” does not include vegetable fats referred to in regulation 3 or the filling of any product specified in column 2 of item 7 or of item 10(a) of Schedule 1;\n“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment, and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;\n“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1;\n“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 , as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and “sell” and “sale” shall be construed accordingly;\n...; and\n“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than–\n(a)for the purpose of resale;\n(b)for the purposes of a catering establishment; or\n(c)for the purposes of a manufacturing business.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), sch. 5 para. 9(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), sch. 5 para. 9(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 197, 3.8.00, p.19, as adopted by EEA Joint Committee Decision 152/2001 (O.J. No. L 65, 7.3.02, p.26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.571."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/291/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:36:10.018595+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}