Regulation 11 Modification of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Agriculture Act 1970
For the purpose of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Act, analysis shall (as specified in regulation 7) be treated as carried out in the prescribed manner, in relation to a sample of a product which falls to be inspected pursuant to Directive 95/53 but is not a feeding stuff, if—
(a)
where there is an applicable standard of the kind referred to in the first indent of Article 18.3 of Directive 95/53, analysis is carried out in accordance with that standard, and
(b)
where there is no such standard, analysis is carried out in accordance with any scientifically valid method the application of which does not contravene any general principle of the Treaty establishing the European Community.