{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3348",
  "legislation_title": "The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2 (interpretation) paragraph (1) —\n(a) in the definition of “Directive 94/35/EC” after the words “Directive 96/83/EC of the European Parliament and Council” there shall be inserted —\n“and by Directive 2003/115/EC”;\n(b) in the definition of “Directive 95/31/EC” after the words “Directive 2001/52/EC” there shall be inserted —\n“and by Directive 2004/46/EC”; and\n(c) 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 specified in the Annex to Directive 95/31/EC;”.\n(2) In regulation 2 paragraph (3) —\n(a) in sub–paragraph (c)(i) the words —\n“and salt of aspartame–acesulfame”\nshall be omitted; and\n(b) in sub–paragraph (c)(ii) after the words “as the case may be” where those words first appear in that sub–paragraph, there shall be inserted the following words —\n“the maximum amount of free imide contained in the”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L24, 29.1.2004, p.65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L114, 21.4.2004, p.15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3348/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:12:52.728534+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."
}