Paragraph 1 InterpretationF1

In this Schedule—

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “the Directive” (“y Gyfarwyddeb”) means Commission Directive 2006/141/EC on infant formulae and follow-on formulae and amending Directive 1999/21/EC;

• “follow-on formula” (“fformiwla ddilynol”) means foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional use by infants when appropriate complementary feeding is introduced and constituting the principal liquid element in a progressively diversified diet of such infants;

• “food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) has the meaning that it bears by virtue of section 5(1A) of the Act;

• “health care system” (“system gofal iechyd”) means institutions or organisations engaged, directly or indirectly, in health care for mothers, infants and pregnant women, including nurseries or child care institutions and health workers in private practice;

• “infant formula” (“fformiwla fabanod”) means foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional use by infants during the first months of life and satisfying by themselves the nutritional requirements of such infants until the introduction of appropriate complementary feeding;

• “infants” (“babanod”) means children under the age of 12 months;

• “young children” (“plant ifanc”) means children aged between one and three years.

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), any expression other than one defined in sub-paragraph (1) that is used both in this Schedule and in the Act has the meaning it bears in the Act.

Any expression used both in this Schedule and in the Directive has the meaning that it bears in the Directive.

In this Schedule, any reference to a numbered Annex is a reference to the Annex bearing that number in the Directive.