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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/683",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Products (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3082) (“the principal Regulations”), as amended. Those Regulations extend to Great Britain only. These Regulations implement Council Directive 95/68/EC (OJ No. L332, 30.12.95, p. 10), which amends Council Directive 77/99/EEC on health problems affecting the production and marketing of meat products and certain other products of animal origin (see OJ No. L57, 2.3.92, p. 4 for the consolidated text of that last-mentioned Directive after amendments made to it by Council Directive 92/5/EEC). These Regulations also amend the principal Regulations to give effect to Article 1(9) of Council Directive 97/76/EC (OJ No. L10, 16.1.98, p. 25). The bulk of the Regulations comes into force on 31st March 1999. Regulation 2(10)(c) will come into force on 30th September 1999 and regulation 2(10)(g) and (k) on 31st March 2000.\nRegulation 2 makes technical adjustments to various provisions of the principal Regulations. In particular, the exceptions to the requirement that a health mark be applied to a meat product, set out in Schedule 2 Part VI to the principal Regulations, are recast (regulation 2(10)(d), (e) and (f)), as are the hygiene control requirements imposed on manufacturers using hermetically sealed containers (Schedule 2 Part VIII, to the principal Regulations, amended by regulation 2(10)(j) of these Regulations). The temperature requirements applying to the production of meat-based prepared meals are also amended (regulation 2(10)(k)). Article 1(9) of Council Directive 97/76/EC substitutes a new Chapter III for the existing Chapter III of Annex C to Council Directive 77/99/EEC. The new Chapter III lays down conditions governing the production, placing on the market and import of cleaned, salted or dried and/or heated stomachs, bladders and intestines. That new Chapter is replicated in a revised Part III of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations, which revision is effected by regulation 2(11)(f) of these Regulations.\nRegulation 3 (made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68)) makes a consequential amendment to the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3124, as amended).\nA regulatory impact assessment for these Regulations has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies of it can be obtained from the Meat Hygiene Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ergon House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.",
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