Regulation 22 Interpretation of this Part of these Regulations

In this Part of these Regulations—

• “authorised officer”, in relation to an enforcement authority, means any person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who is authorised by them in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under the Import Provisions;

• “the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;

• “enforcement authority” means the feed authority or the food authority;

• “feed” does not include additives of a type mentioned in Article 6(1)(e) of or paragraph 4(d) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition M1 or any premixture consisting solely of a combination of such additives;

• “outside Scotland enforcement authority” means the body responsible for enforcing the legislation in force with respect to imported products in any part of the United Kingdom except Scotland;

• F1“product” means food and feed—

  1. (a)

     of non-animal origin whose import is regulated by Articles 44, F2Article 47(1)(d), 47(1)(e) or 47(1)(f) of Regulation 2017/625, and the Regulation 2017/625 package, and

  2. (b)

     those composite products and foodstuffs which are not required to be subject to veterinary checks as provided in Commission Decision 2007/275/EC concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC;

• F3...

• F4“specified import provision” means any provision of Regulation 2017/625 or the Regulation 2017/625 package that is specified in column 1 of schedule 6 and whose subject-matter is described in column 2 of that schedule.