Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations —

• “the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “authorised lettuce” means lettuce of the kind specified in point 1.3 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.2 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;

• “authorised officer” means any person who is authorised in writing, either generally or specifically, by a food authority or as the case may be a port health authority to act in matters arising under these Regulations;

• “authorised spinach” means spinach of the kind specified in point 1.1 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.1 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;

• “the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 466/2001 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs^f1 as corrected by a corrigendum published on 30th November 2001^f2, and as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2375/2001^f3, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 221/2002^f4, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 257/2002^f5, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 472/2002^f6 as corrected by a corrigendum published on 23rd March 2002^f7, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 563/2002^f8 as corrected by a corrigendum published on 14th June 2002^f9, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1425/2003^f10, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2174/2003^f11, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 242/2004^f12, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 455/2004^f13, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 655/2004^f14, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 683/2004^f15, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 684/2004^f16, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 78/2005^f17, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 123/2005^f18, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 208/2005^f19, and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1822/2005^f20;

• “Directive 98/53/EC” means Commission Directive 98/53/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs^f21 as amended by Commission Directive 2002/27/EC^f22, Commission Directive 2003/121/EC^f23 and Commission Directive 2004/43/EC^f24;

• “Directive 2001/22/EC” means Commission Directive 2001/22/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and 3–MCPD in foodstuffs^f25 as corrected by Commission Decision 2001/873/EC^f26 and as amended by Commission Directive 2005/4/EC^f27;

• “Directive 2002/26/EC” means Commission Directive 2002/26/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of ochratoxin A in foodstuffs^f28 as amended by Commission Directive 2004/43/EC and Commission Directive 2005/5/EC^f29;

• “Directive 2002/69/EC” means Commission Directive 2002/69/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of dioxins and the determination of dioxin–like PCBs in foodstuffs^f30 as corrected by a corrigendum published on 20th September 2002^f31 and as amended by Commission Directive 2004/44/EC^f32;

• “Directive 2003/78/EC” means Commission Directive 2003/78/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of patulin in foodstuffs^f33;

• “Directive 2004/16/EC” means Commission Directive 2004/16/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of tin in canned foods^f34;

• “Directive 2005/10/EC” means Commission Directive 2005/10/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of benzo(a) pyrene in foodstuffs^f35;

• “food authority” includes neither the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple) nor a port health authority;

• “port health authority” means —

  1. (a)

     in relation to the London port health district (within the meaning given to that phrase for the purposes of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984^f36 by section 7(1) of that Act), the Common Council of the City of London; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act;

• “Regulation 882/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules^f37.

Any other expression used in these Regulations and in the Commission Regulation has the same meaning in these Regulations as it bears in the Commission Regulation.