# The Honey (England) Regulations 2015, Regulation 22A: Transitional provisions: withdrawal from the EU


(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 before 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1348/regulation/22A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/honey-england-regulations-2015/regulation-22A
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