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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/215",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations, which further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001 No. 47 – “the principal Regulations”), provide for the enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2003 amending the conditions for authorisation of a number of additives in feedingstuffs belonging to the group of trace elements (O.J. No. L187, 26.7.2003, p. 11), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1801/2003 provisionally authorising the new use of a certain micro-organism in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L264, 15.10.2003, p. 16), and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1847/2003 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new use of an additive and the permanent authorisation of an additive already authorised in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L269, 21.10.2003, p. 3) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2112/2003 correcting Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2003 amending the conditions for authorisation of a number of additives in feedingstuffs belonging to the group trace elements (O.J. No. L317, 2.12.2003, p. 22) (regulation 2(2) and (3)).\nThese Regulations also implement Commission Directive 2003/57/EC amending Directive 2002/32 of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed (O.J. No. L151, 19.6.2003, p. 38) by amending Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations so as to specify new maximum levels for dioxin in feedingstuffs (regulation 2(4) and Schedule 1).\nThese Regulations also implement Commission Directive 2003/104/EC authorising isopropyl ester of the hydroxylated analogue of methionine (O.J. No. L295, 13.11.2003, p. 83) by amending Schedule 8 to the principal Regulations so as to revise the conditions for the sale or possession for sale of analogues of methionine for use as a feeding stuff or as a protein source in a feeding stuff (regulation 2(5) and Schedule 2).",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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