{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-2074/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-2074/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/2074",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down implementing measures for certain products under Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and for the organisation of official controls under Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, derogating from Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-2074",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Derogation from Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 for foods with traditional characteristics",
  "text": "1. For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘foods with traditional characteristics’ means foods that are traditionally manufactured in Great Britain and are:\n(a) recognised historically as traditional products, or\n(b) manufactured according to codified or registered technical references to the traditional process, or according to traditional production methods, or\n(c) protected as traditional food products by ... national ... law.\n2. The appropriate authority may grant establishments manufacturing foods with traditional characteristics individual or general derogations from the requirements set out in:\n(a) Chapter II(1) of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 as regards the premises where such products are exposed to an environment necessary for the part-development of their characteristics. Such premises may in particular comprise walls, ceilings and doors that are not smooth, impervious, non-absorbent or of corrosion-resistant material and natural geological walls, ceilings and floors;\n(b) Chapter II(1)(f) and Chapter V(1) of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 as regards the type of materials of which the instruments and the equipment used specifically for the preparation, packaging and wrapping of these products are made.\nThe cleaning and disinfecting measures for the premises referred in (a) and the frequency with which they are carried out shall be adapted to the activity in order to take account of their specific ambient flora.\nThe instruments and equipment referred to in (b) shall be maintained at all times in a satisfactory state of hygiene and be regularly cleaned and disinfected.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/640, reg. 19B(a)(i) (as inserted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of S.I. 2019/640, reg. 19B(a)(ii) (as inserted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/640, reg. 19B(b) (as inserted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(12))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 7(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of S.I. 2019/640, reg. 19B(c) (as inserted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(12))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/2074/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:03.997103+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}