Regulation 23 Transitional provisions: withdrawal from the EUF1
An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a failure to comply with regulation 17(1) if—
the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market before IP completion day; and
the matter constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day.
An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a failure to comply with regulation 17(1) if—
the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market F2before 1 January 2024;
the product bears one of the indications provided for in regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day;
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
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.
In this regulation, “improvement notice” means an improvement notice pursuant to regulation 19.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Reg. 23 inserted (14.4.2021) by The Food, Animal Feed and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/371), regs. 1(2), 6
- F2
Words in reg. 23(2)(a) substituted (30.9.2022) by The Food Information (Amendment of Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/939), regs. 1(2), 8