# The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2012, Regulation 30: Statutory Review

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The Food Standards Agency must from time to time —
(a) carry out a review of the operation and effect of regulations 1 to 27;
(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c) publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Food Standards Agency must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to the operation of the relevant assimilated instruments.
(3) The report must in particular —
(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations;
(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and
(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if they do, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.
(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.
(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.
(6) In this regulation “the relevant assimilated instruments” means ... Regulation 1935/2004, Regulation 1895/2005, Regulation 2023/2006, Regulation 450/2009 and Regulation 10/2011.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2619/regulation/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2012/regulation-30
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