Introductory text
Food, Wales
Made 14 July 2014
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 16 July 2014
Coming into force 8 August 2014
The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972f1.
The Welsh Ministers have been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of foodf2.
As required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safetyf3, there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of these Regulations.
Annotations
Footnotes
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1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) (“the 2006 Act”) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) (“the 2008 Act”). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the 2006 Act and has been amended by section 3(3) of and the Schedule to the 2008 Act and by article 3 of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388).
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S.I. 2005/1971. By virtue of section 162 and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by this designation are transferred to the Welsh Ministers.
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OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p14).