# The Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1 These Regulations, which come into force on 12th January 2012, amend the Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1079) (“the 2008 Regulations”) in order to implement Commission Implementing Decision 2011/884/EU on emergency measures regarding unauthorised genetically modified rice in rice products originating from China and repealing Decision 2008/289/EC (OJ No. L343, 23.12.2011, p.140) (“the Commission Decision”). The Commission Decision provides for import restrictions that previously applied to Bt 63 genetically modified rice to apply, with modifications, to all unauthorised GM rice.
2 In particular these Regulations amend the 2008 Regulations by —
(a) inserting in regulation 2 a definition of the Commission Decision and amending, adding or removing certain other definitions (regulation 2(2));
(b) amending regulation 3(1), by imposing conditions under which specified products (rice and rice products originating in or consigned from China) may be placed on the market (regulation 2(3));
(c) omitting regulation 4, which required operators to notify the Food Standards Agency of certain test results (regulation 2(4));
(d) amending regulation 5(4), which identifies the provisions of the Commission Decision that an enforcement officer of a feed or food authority must ensure are observed (regulation 2(5));
(e) inserting as new regulation 7 a provision to implement the requirement in Article 8 of the Commission Decision that all costs resulting from the official controls and from any non-compliance must be borne by the food or feed business operator concerned (regulation 2(7)); and
(f) inserting as new regulation 8 a provision implementing the transitional arrangements contained in Article 9 of the Commission Decision (regulation 2(7)).
3 These Regulations contain provisions requiring the Food Standards Agency to carry out a review of the 2008 Regulations as amended by these Regulations at intervals of not more than 5 years (regulation 3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/47/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/specified-products-from-china-restriction-on-first-placing-on-the-market-england-amendment-regulations-2012/note
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