# The Eggs and Chicks (England) Regulations 2009, Regulation 14: Derogation relating to barn eggs

Extent: E+W

(1) By way of derogation from the provisions of point 2 of Annex II to Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, eggs to which paragraph (2) applies may be marketed as barn eggs.
(2) This paragraph applies to eggs that have—
(a) been produced in a system of production that does not comply with any one or more of the conditions specified in paragraph (3); and
(b) been produced in an establishment—
(i) with fewer than 350 laying hens at the time that the eggs are produced;
(ii) rearing breeding laying hens at the time that the eggs are produced; or
(iii) rearing breeding laying hens and with fewer than 350 laying hens at that time.
(3) The conditions are the conditions in the following provisions of Schedule 2 to the English welfare regulations—
(a) paragraph 2(d),
(b) paragraph 2(e),
(c) paragraph 5,
(d) paragraph 6(a), and
(e) paragraph 6(b).
(4) It is for a person seeking to rely on paragraph (1) in order to market eggs as barn eggs to prove that the eggs are eggs to which paragraph (2) applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2163/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-and-chicks-england-regulations-2009/regulation-14
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