Regulation 11 Review

(1)

The Food Standards Agency must from time to time —

(a)

carry out a review of the operation and effect of regulation 2 to 8 of these Regulations;

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Agency must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU instruments mentioned in regulation 2(1) are implemented or executed and enforced in other Member States.

(3)

The report must in particular —

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(5)

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.