Explanatory note

F1(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”), which provide for the enforcement in England and Northern Ireland of European Community Regulations concerned with the production and marketing of wine and related products.

These Regulations—

1. (a)

   replace references to the Wine Standards Board with references to the Food Standards Agency (regulation 2(1) to (3)) thereby making the Food Standards Agency responsible for the enforcement functions under the 2001 Regulations that were previously the responsibility of the Wine Standards Board;

2. (b)

   make other consequential amendments arising as a result of the changes made in relation to those enforcement functions (regulation 2(4) and (5));

3. (c)

   put in place a different procedure for the review of prohibitions etc. on the movement of wine-sector products (regulation 2(6)); and

4. (d)

   contain transitional provisions (regulation 3).

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for these Regulations. A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.