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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1699",
  "legislation_title": "The Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply to England and Wales, amend the Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations —\n(a) implement Article 2 of, as read with Annex B to, Commission Decision 95/165/EC establishing uniform criteria for the grant of derogations to certain establishments manufacturing milk-based products (regulations 3 and 5);\n(b) implement Commission Decision 95/340/EC drawing up a provisional list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of milk and milk-based products and revoking Decision 94/70/EC, as amended by Commission Decision 96/106/EC, and as read with Articles 22 and 23(2)(a) of Council Directive 92/46/EEC laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products (OJ No. L268, 14.9.92, p.1) (regulations 3(a) and 8);\n(c) make some corrections to the principal Regulations to reflect provisions in Council Directive 92/46/EEC, as amended, relating to heat-treated drinking milk (regulation 10) and the health mark (regulation 12);\n(d) clarify the provisions in the principal Regulations relating to risk analysis principles (regulation 3(a)(v)), exemptions (regulation 4) and enforcement and supervision (regulation 6), make a few drafting amendments (regulations 7, 9, 11 and 13) and a consequential amendment (regulation 3(a)(iii)).\nIn addition, these Regulations amend the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 so that those Regulations apply to a person carrying on the handling in or sale from any catering establishment or shop premises of ice-cream or heat-treated cream in England and Wales (regulation 14).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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