Schedule 3 DEFINITION OF RELEVANT FOOD LAWI1
Northern Ireland
“relevant food law” means —
- (a)
food law in so far as it applies in relation to food, except in so far as it involves —
- (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 (Northern Ireland) 1998f1,
- (ii)
the regulation of residues of pesticides under the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008f2,
- (iii)
F1...
- (iv)
F2the 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 of quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs.
- (v)
the regulation of organic products under the Organic Products Regulations 2009 f3,
- (vi)
F3the regulation of beef and veal labelling under the Beef and Veal Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010,
- (vii)
F4...
- (viii)
the matters regulated under Schedule 2 to the F5Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 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 programmesf4 in so far as those points apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption; and
- (ix)
the regulation of spirit drinks under the Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008f5;
- (i)
- (b)
food law in so far as it applies in relation to materials and articles in contact with food; and
- (c)
food law in so far as it involves the regulation of primary production and those associated operations listed in paragraph 1 of Part AI of Annex I to Regulation 852/2004 under the Food Hygiene Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.
- (a)
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
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, 28(2)(a)
- F2
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.1.2019) by The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 28(2)(b)
- F3
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (11.2.2019) by The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 21(4)
- F4
Words in Sch. 3 deleted by S.R. 2011/438, Sch. 5 para. 3 (as inserted (31.7.2014) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/196), regs. 1, 3(13))
- F5
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (3.1.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/213), regs. 1, 21
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Footnotes
- f1
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S.R. 1998 No.237, amended by S.R. 2005 No. 451 and S.R. 2006 No. 263
- f2
- f3
- f4
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OJ No. L256, 29.9.2009, p.35
- f5