{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/379",
  "legislation_title": "The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995",
  "text": "In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “Directive 95/31/EC” there shall be added at the end the expression “and by Directive 2001/52/EC”; and\n(b) for the definition of “permitted sweetener” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““permitted sweetener” means any sweetener specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that sweetener set out—\n(a) in the case of any sweetener other than sucralose, in the Annex to Directive 95/31/EC; and\n(b) in the case of sucralose, at pages 119 to 124 of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Compendium of Food Additives Specifications Addendum 2 (1993) FAO Food and Nutrition Paper 52 Addendum 2;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The reference for Directive 2001/52/EC is OJ No. L190, 12.7.2001, p. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/379/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:14:43.120510+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}