Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014 No. 223) to make provision to enforce Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (“Article 26(3)”) as read with certain provisions of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/775 laying down rules for the application of that Article as regards the indication of the country of origin of the primary ingredient (“the Commission Regulation”).

Regulation 2 applies certain provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (1991 N.I. 7) with modifications. This includes the application (with modifications) of Article 9(1), enabling an improvement notice to be served requiring compliance with Article 25(3) as read with specified provisions of the Commission Regulation. The provisions, as applied, make the failure to comply with an improvement notice an offence.