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Explanatory note

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These Regulations further amend the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) and apply to Great Britain.

The Regulations make provision for the enforcement and execution of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1511/96 amending Regulation (EEC) No. 1274/91 introducing detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1907/90 on certain marketing standards for eggs (regulation 4). Regulation (EC) No. 1511/96 is concerned with the grading of eggs by weight, the confidentiality of certain information supplied and the optional use of supplementary indications on egg packs regarding particular characteristics of the type of farming concerned. Article 2 of that Regulation contains a transitional provision in relation to weight grading.

These Regulations also make some technical and drafting amendments in respect of the application of specified provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 to the principal Regulations (regulation 3).