# Feeding Stuffs (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (SR 2001 No. 47, as already amended). They implement Commission Directive 2003/7/EC amending the conditions for authorisation of canthaxanthin in feedingstuffs in accordance with Council Directive 70/524/EEC (O.J. No. L22, 25.1.2003, p. 28) by modifying the controls in the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 regulating the presence of additives in feedingstuffs by specifying new maximum levels in feed for the colourant canthaxanthin (regulation 2(2) and the Schedule).
They also provide for the enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 871/2003 permanently authorising a new additive manganomanganic oxide in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L125, 21.5.2003, p. 3) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 877/2003 provisionally authorising the use of the acidity regulator “Benzoic acid” in feedingstuffs (OJ No. L126, 22.5.2003, p. 24) (regulation 2(3)).

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