Article 79 ToleranceC1

United Kingdom

In order to take into account the specific characteristics of each product or sector, the different marketing stages, the technical conditions, any possible considerable practical difficulty, and also the accuracy and repeatability of the methods of analysis, the F1appropriate authority in England, Wales or Scotland may make regulations on tolerance for one or more specific standards in excess of which the entire batch of products shall be considered not to respect that standard.

When F2making regulations under paragraph 1, the F3appropriate authority in England, Wales or Scotland shall take into account the need not to alter the intrinsic characteristics of the product and to avoid lowering its quality.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 79(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 20(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 12(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 79(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 20(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Art. 79(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 20(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 12(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Modifications

C1: Pt. 2 Title 2 Ch. 1 Section 1 applied (with modifications) (N.I.) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Public Health, Marketing and Organic Product Standards and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/959), regs. 1(2), 4(a), Sch. 1 (with regs. 7, 8)