Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision for the execution and enforcement of directly applicable Community provisions relating to the marketing of preserved sardines in the Community set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2136/89 (OJ No. L212, 22.7.89, p.79).

The Regulations—

(a)

designate enforcement authorities (regulation 3);

(b)

add a power to require the production of books and documents, and to take copies of books and documents, to the powers available to authorised officers of the enforcement authorities under Part VI of the Food Act 1984 (“the Act”) (regulation 4);

(c)

prescribe offences and penalties (regulation 5);

(d)

make certain provisions of the Act apply to prosecutions or proceedings under regulation 5 of the Regulations as if they were prosecutions or proceedings under the Act (regulation 6).

Section 91 of the Act contains offences of obstructing any person acting in the execution of regulations made under the Act. The enforcement provisions of Part VI of the Act apply to these Regulations.