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Regulation 43 Incorporation of zootechnical additives

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall incorporate an unauthorised zootechnical additive into a feedingstuff.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall incorporate an authorised zootechnical additive into a feedingstuff other than a compound feedingstuff.

(3)

Nothing in paragraphs (1) or (2) shall prohibit a person (“the relevant person”) from incorporating—

(a)

an unauthorised zootechnical additive in a feedingstuff, or

(b)

an authorised zootechnical additive in a feedingstuff other than a compound feedingstuff,

where it is intended that the resulting feedingstuff will be fed to an animal for an Article 6.4 purpose and the use of the feedingstuff will constitute a use specified in paragraph (4).

(4)

For the purpose of the previous paragraph the following uses are specified—

(a)

a medicinal test on animals for which the relevant person has been issued with an animal test certificate, or

(b)

a regulated procedure for which the relevant person holds a personal licence and which is specified in a project licence that authorises the procedure.

(5)

No person shall incorporate an authorised zootechnical additive into a compound feedingstuff unless—

(a)

the additive has been prepared beforehand in the form of a premixture—

(i)

on a UK or EC approved or permitted Chapter I.2 establishment, or

(ii)

a UK or EC approved or permitted third country Chapter I.2 establishment,

and in accordance with the requirements specified, or in the case of a third country establishment, requirements equivalent to those specified, in the first paragraph of Article 13.3 of Directive 70/524/EEC, as amended by Directive 96/51/EC, and he incorporates the premixture in the feedingstuff in accordance with regulation 59; or

(b)

the incorporation is carried out on a UK approved or permitted Chapter I.3(M) establishment and the conditions specified in the first and third indented paragraphs of Article 13.4(b) of Directive 70/524/EEC, as amended by Directive 96/51/EC, are complied with;

and, in either case, the additive is incorporated in accordance with the applicable provisions of the relevant Chapter entry covering the additive in Annex B to Directive 70/524/EEC as amended by Directive 96/51/EC.