Regulation 30 Statutory Review

United Kingdom

(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 F1the operation of the relevant F2assimilated 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 F3relevant F4assimilated instruments” means F5... Regulation 1935/2004, Regulation 1895/2005, Regulation 2023/2006, Regulation 450/2009 and Regulation 10/2011.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 30(2) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)
F2: Word in reg. 30(2) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 1
F3: Words in reg. 30(6) inserted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)(i)
F4: Word in reg. 30(6) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 1
F5: Words in reg. 30(6) omitted (31.12.2022) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)(ii)