Regulation 2 General interpretation
In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;
“bulk containers” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive;
“FIC” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 M1;
“food authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 M2”;
“Honey Directive” means Council Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey M3;
“ingredient” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(f) of FIC, as read with Article 2(5) of the Honey Directive;
“in trade” has the same meaning as in the Honey Directive and “trade in” and “trading in” are to be construed accordingly;
F1“trading bloc” means a group of nations united by trade agreements,
“labelling” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(j) of FIC;
“packs” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive;
“trade documents” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive; and
“specific quality criteria” has the same meaning as in the third indented paragraph of paragraph (b) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Article 2 of the Honey Directive.
Any other expression used in these Regulations has the same meaning as in the Honey Directive.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Food Information, Labelling and Standards (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/285), regs. 1(1), 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Marginal citations
- M1
OJ No L 304, 22.11.2011, p.18, last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 78/2014 (OJ No L 27, 30.1.2014, p.7).
- M2
- M3
OJ No L 10, 12.1.2002, p.47, last amended by Directive 2014/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No 164, 3.6.2014, p.1).