The Feeding Stuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Contents

1Citation, commencement and extent#

(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st July 2002.

(2)These Regulations shall extend to Scotland only.

2Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

The Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 13 below.

3Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In regulation 2 (interpretation), for paragraph (7) there shall be substituted–“7 Any reference in these Regulations to a European Community Directive, Regulation or Decision shall be construed as a reference to that Directive or, as the case may be, Regulation or Decision, as amended as at the date the Feeding Stuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 were made.”

4Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In regulation 19(2) (control of feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes, and supplementary provisions relating to statutory statement), for “Schedule 10” there shall be substituted “Schedule 9”.

5Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In regulation 25(2) (modification of section 74A(3) of the Agriculture Act 1970) for “regulations” to the end there shall be substituted–“• regulations 4 (except in so far as it relates to Part II of Schedule 5), 9(1) (in so far as it regulates putting into circulation), (2) and (3), 10(1) to (4), (6), (6A) and (7), 13(2) (in so far as it falls to be read with paragraph (3)(a), (c) or (d) of that regulation), (4), (6) and (7), 14(3), (4), (6), (7) and (9), 15(1), 17, 18(1) and 19(1).”

6Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

Regulation 27(b) shall be omitted.

7Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In Schedule 3 (permitted additives and provisions relating to their use), for the provisions in Part IX of the Table (European Community Regulations by which additives are controlled) there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

8Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In Schedule 4 (contents of the statutory statement or other declaration (except for additives and premixtures not contained in feeding stuffs)), in paragraph 22(g) for “the country or origin or manufacture” there shall be substituted “the country of origin or manufacture.”.

9Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In Schedule 7 (prescribed limits for undesirable substances)–

(a)for the entry for Dioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF) in column 1 of Chapter A of Part I of the Table and the corresponding entries in columns 2 and 3 of that Chapter; and

(b)for the entry for Dioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF) in column 1 of Chapter A of Part II of the Table and the corresponding entries in columns 2 and 3 of that Chapter,

there shall be substituted the entries set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

10Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In Schedule 8 (control of certain protein sources)–

(a)in relation to the entry in column 1 for “3. Amino acids and their salts” the corresponding entry in column 6 “All animal species” shall be omitted; and

(b)in relation to the entry in column 2 for item 3.1.1. relating to DL-methionine, technically pure, for item 3.1.2. Dihydrated calcium salt of N hydroxymethyl DL methionine, technically pure, and for item 3.1.3. methionine zinc, technically pure, for the corresponding entry in column 6 “Ruminants from the beginning of rumination” there shall be substituted “All animal species”.

11Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000#

In Schedule 9 (permitted feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes and provisions relating to their use) for the entry for the support of liver function in case of chronic liver insufficiency in column 1 of Chapter A and the corresponding entries in columns 2 to 6 of that Chapter there shall be substituted the entries set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

12Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999#

The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows:–

(a)in Part I of Schedule 2 (methods of analysis), at the end of paragraph 3(e)(ii), for “Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted “Schedule 7 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000”; and

(b)in Part II of Schedule 3 (form of certificate of analysis), in note 11(a), for “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000”.

13Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999#

The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows:–

(a)in regulation 2(1), for the definition of “third country” there shall be substituted–“• “third country” means a country other than a State which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;”

(b)in regulation 7(2) and (4), references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” shall have effect as if they read “the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000”;

(c)regulation 10 shall, in so far as it modifies section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970, be read as if, in that section as so modified, for the references in subsection (17) to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 there were substituted references to the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000.