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Regulation 22A Transitional provisions: withdrawal from the EUF1

(1)

An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a contravention of regulation 17(1) if—

(a)

the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market before IP completion day; and

(b)

the matter would not have constituted a contravention of regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day.

(2)

An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a contravention of regulation 17(1) if—

(a)

the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market F2before 1 January 2024;

(b)

the product bears one of the indications provided for in regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day;

(c)

had the product been placed on the market immediately before IP completion day, the use of the indication would not have constituted a contravention of regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day; and

(d)

the indication is accurate in identifying the “EU”, “non-EU” or “EU and non-EU” origins, as the case may be, of the honeys in the product.

(3)

In this regulation, “improvement notice” means an improvement notice pursuant to regulation 19.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 22A inserted (27.5.2021) by The Food and Drink (Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Food and Wine Composition, Information and Labelling) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/632), regs. 1, 4(3)

F2

Words in reg. 22A(2)(a) substituted (30.9.2022) by The Food Information (Amendment of Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/938), regs. 1(1), 9