# The Food Supplements (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Food Supplements (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”), which implement in Scotland Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements (O.J. No. L 183, 12.7.2002, p.51). These Regulations implement in Scotland Commission Directive 2006/37/EC amending Annex II to Directive 2002/46/EC as regards the inclusion of certain substances. Commission Directive 2006/37/EC is the first instrument to amend Directive 2002/46/EC.
The 2003 Regulations prohibit the sale of a food supplement in the manufacture of which a vitamin or mineral has been used, unless that vitamin or mineral is listed in Schedule 1 to those Regulations and is in a form listed in Schedule 2 (“the positive lists”). This requirement is subject to a transitional provision (see regulation 5 of, and the Schedules to, the 2003 Regulations).
These Regulations–
(a) add another form of the vitamin folate and another form of the mineral iron to the positive list in Schedule 2 to the 2003 Regulations (regulation 5);
(b) make a consequential amendment (regulation 4); and
(c) update the definition of “Directive 2002/46” in the 2003 Regulations (regulation 3).
A full regulatory impact assessment, which includes a compliance cost assessment of the effect which these Regulations would have on business costs, has been prepared for these Regulations and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency (Scotland), 6th Floor, St Magnus House, 25 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6NJ.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/78/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/note
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