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Explanatory note

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1.

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2481, as already amended). The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 largely apply in relation to England only.

2.

These 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 (OJ 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 (OJ No. L264, 15.10.2003, p.16), 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 (OJ No. L269, 21.10.2003, p.3), 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 (OJ No. L317, 2.12.2003, p.22), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2154/2003 provisionally authorising certain micro-organisms in feeding stuffs (OJ No. L324, 11.12.2003, p.11), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 277/2004 concerning the authorisation of an additive in feeding stuffs for fattening turkeys (OJ No. L047, 18.2.2004, p.20), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 278/2004 provisionally authorising the new use of an additive in feeding stuffs for laying hens (OJ No. L047, 18.2.2004, p.22) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 490/2004 provisionally authorising the new use of an additive in feeding stuffs (OJ No. L079, 17.3.2004, p.23), (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

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These 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 (OJ No. L151, 19.6.2003, p.38) by amending Schedule 7 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 so as to specify new maximum levels for Dioxin in feeding stuffs (regulation 2(4) and Schedule 1).

4.

These Regulations also implement Commission Directive 2003/104/EC authorising isopropyl ester of the hydroxylated analogue of methionine (OJ No. L295, 13.11.2003, p.83) by amending Schedule 8 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 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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These Regulations also make consequential amendments to regulations 7(1) and 25(1) of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 (regulation 3) and consequential amendments to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 (regulations 4 to 11).

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A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business has been prepared and placed in the Library of each House of Parliament together with a Transposition Note setting out how the main elements of Commission Directive 2003/57/EC and Commission Directive 2003/104/EC are transposed into domestic law by these Regulations. Copies may be obtained from the Chemical Contaminants and Animal Feed Division of the Food Standards Agency, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway London, WC2B 6NH.