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England and Wales

  • “relevant food law” means —

    1. (a)

      food law in so far as it applies in relation to food, except in so far as it involves —

      1. (i)

        the regulation of residues of veterinary medicines and other substances under the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations 1997 F1,

      2. (ii)

        the regulation of residues of pesticides under the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (England and Wales) Regulations 2008 F2,

      3. (iii)

        F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. (iv)

        F4the application of the rules on quality schemes which provide the basis for the identification and protection of names and terms that indicate or describe agricultural products with value-adding characteristics laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs,

      5. (v)

        the regulation of organic products under the Organic Products Regulations 2009 F5,

      6. (vi)

        the regulation of beef and veal labelling under the Beef and Veal Labelling Regulations 2008 F6,

      7. (vii)

        the regulation of the import of and trade in products of animal origin —

      8. (aa)

        under the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996 F7, with the exception of the execution and enforcement of regulation 3 thereof by the Agency,

      9. (bb)

        under the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2006 F8, with the exception of the execution and enforcement of regulation 5 thereof by the Agency;

      10. (viii)

        the matters regulated under Schedule 2 to the F9Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018 in so far as that Schedule applies in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption, together with the matters covered under point 2 of Part I and point 2 of Part II of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation 999/2001 as read with Commission Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes F10 in so far as those points apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption; and

      11. (ix)

        the regulation of spirit drinks under the Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008 F11;

    2. (b)

      food law in so far as it applies in relation to materials and articles in contact with food; and

    3. (c)

      food law in so far as it involves the regulation of primary production and those associated operations listed in point 1 of Part AI of Annex I to Regulation 852/2004 under F12the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S.I. 1997/1729, amended by S.I. 2001/3590, S.I. 2004/147, and S.I. 2006/755.

F2

S.I. 2008/2570.

F3

Words in Sch. 3 omitted (1.1.2019) by virtue of The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 25(2)(a)

F4

Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.1.2019) by The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 25(2)(b)

F5

S.I. 2009/842.

F6

S.I. 2008/3252.

F7

S.I. 1996/3124, amended by S.I. 1997/3023, S.I. 1998/994, S.I. 1999/683, S.I. 2000/225, S.I. 2000/656, S.I. 2000/790, S.I. 2000/2215, S.I. 2001/1553, S.I. 2001/1640, S.I. 2001/3399, S.I. 2002/889, S.I. 2003/3003 and S.I. 2003/3177.

F8

S.I. 2006/2841, amended by S.I. 2007/1605, S.I 2008/3230 and S.I. 2009/875.

F9

Words in Sch. 3 substituted (19.7.2018) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/731), regs. 1(1), 21(1)

F10

OJ No. L256, 29.9.2009, p.35.

F11

S.I. 2008/3206.

F12

Words in Sch. 3 substituted (31.12.2013) by The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2996), regs. 1(1)(c), 37(4) (with reg. 1(2))

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006 c.51).

F2

S.I. 2003/2901.

F3

S.I. 1972/1811.

F4

S.I. 1999/2027.

F5

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).