# The Quick-Frozen Foodstuffs (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations revoke and remake with amendments the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations (NI) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 65). These Regulations continue the implementation of the Directives specified in paragraph 3 below, and to provide for the execution and enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 37/2005 on the monitoring of temperatures in the means of transport, warehousing and storage of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for human consumption (OJ No. L10, 13.1.2005, p.18).
These Regulations-
(a) prohibit the placing on the market of a quick-frozen foodstuff unless certain conditions are satisfied (regulation 3);
(b) prohibit the placing on the market of a quick-frozen foodstuff intended for the ultimate consumer unless certain conditions regarding packaging are satisfied (regulation 4);
(c) impose requirements relating to the labelling of quick-frozen foodstuffs (regulation 5);
(d) impose requirements in relation to the equipment used in respect of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for placing on the market for human consumption (regulation 6);
(e) provide for additional inspections of quick-frozen foodstuffs and of the temperatures maintained in respect of them (regulation 7);
(f) require a food operator to make records available in certain circumstances (regulation 8);
(g) provide that a person who contravenes regulation 3, 4, 5(4), 6 or 8 is guilty of an offence and create a penalty for that offence (regulation 9(1));
(h) provide that (subject to certain exceptions, namely compliance with transitional requirements for measuring instruments installed before 1st January 2006 in the case of a contravention of the first paragraph of Article 2.2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 37/2005, and a contravention of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 37/2005 in respect of small cold stores in retail outlets where the air temperature is measured by an easily visible thermometer, a person who contravenes specified provisions of that Regulation is guilty of an offence and create a penalty for that offence (regulation 9(2), (3) and (4));
(i) provide for the execution and enforcement of these Regulations (regulation 9(5)); and
(j) apply with modifications certain provisions of the Food Safety (NI) Order 1991 (1991 c.16) for the purposes of these Regulations (regulation 10);
(k) revoke The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 65)
The Directives implemented by the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 (S.R. 1990 No.455) that these Regulations continue to implement are—
(a) Council Directive 89/108/EEC on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to quick-frozen foodstuffs for human consumption; and
(b) Commission Directive 92/2/EEC laying down the sampling procedure and the Community method of analysis for the official control of the temperatures of quick-frozen foods intended for human consumption (OJ No. L34, 11.2.92, p.30).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/110/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/note
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