The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000

Contents

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1 · Title, commencement and extent
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000, shall come into force on 29th October 2000 and shall extend to England, except that r
2. (2) In so far as regulation 24 applies to Northern Ireland, the references therein to Part IV of the Act shall be construed as references to that Part as modifi
2 · Interpretation
1. (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— • “the Act” means the Agriculture Act 1970; • “additive” means a substance or preparation used
2. (2) The additives appearing in the Section headed “Radionuclide Binders”, and as numbers 3 and 4 in the Section headed “Micro-organisms”, in the Annex to Commis
3. (3) For the purposes of paragraphs 12(1) and 28(1) of Part I of Schedule 4, “protein” has the meaning given to it by article 4(1) of the Bovine Spongiform Encep
4. (4) In these Regulations, “botanical purity” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 2 of Section II of Part A of the Annex to the Feed Materials Direct
5. (5) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the reg
6. (6) Where, in any sub-heading, textual provision or, as the case may be, tabular or other entry in a Schedule to these Regulations, a numbered reference to a fo
7. (7) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section shall, unless the reference is to a section of a specified Act, be construed as a reference to the
8. (8) Any reference in these Regulations to a European Community Directive or Regulation shall be construed as a reference to that Directive or, as the case may b
3 · Prescribed material
1. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, for the purposes of these Regulations, the material prescribed for the purposes of sections 68(1) and 69(1) shall be any mat
2. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, section 68(2) shall cease to apply.
4 · Matters required or permitted to be contained in a statutory statement or otherwise declared
5 · Forms of statutory statement
1. (1) Subject to the sufficiency requirement of the second paragraph of Article 16.6 of the Additives Directive, (which shall be observed, where applicable) and p
2. (2) In the case of any feed material sold in a quantity not exceeding 10 kg, and supplied directly to the final user thereof, the statutory statement may be pro
3. (3) The particulars, information and instructions required or permitted to be contained in the statutory statement shall—
4. (4) For the purposes of section 69 (marking of material prepared for sale), prescribed material which is contained in a package or other container shall be labe
5. (5) In the case of any compound feeding stuff or feed material which is intended for export to a member State, the statutory statement shall be in one or more o
6. (6) In the case of any feeding stuff, not being a zootechnical feeding stuff, which is intended for export to an EEA State which is not a member State, the stat
6 · Register of marks
1. (1) As respects any feed material, the matters required by section 69(1) to be marked on that material may be denoted by a mark, the meaning of which can be asc
2. (2) In the case of any compound feeding stuff, not being of a standard formulation on general sale by the seller concerned, which is specially manufactured or m
3. (3) The register shall show those matters to which the mark relates, being matters required to be contained in a statutory statement relating to the material to
4. (4) The register shall be kept as a separate record in book form, marked on the outside “Register of marks under section 69(6) of the Agriculture Act 1970” and
5. (5) The period for which the register is to be preserved in accordance with section 69(7) shall be six months, commencing on the first day on which none of the
6. (6) The register shall be made and kept by the seller concerned.
7 · Limits of variation
1. (1) Section 74(2) shall have effect, in relation to England, as if, after the words “this Part of this Act” there were inserted the words “,or the Feeding Stuff
2. (2) For the purposes of section 74, as modified by paragraph (1) above, the limits of variation in relation to any mis-statement in a statutory statement, docum
3. (3) Particulars with respect to any material which are contained in a statutory statement, or in any document, or which are marked on, or denoted by a mark on,
8 · Assigned meanings
9 · Manner of packaging and sealing compound feeding stuffs, additives and premixtures
1. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, no person shall sell a compound feeding stuff, or any additive or premixture, unless it is in a bag or container, a
2. (2) Compound feeding stuffs may be sold in bulk, in unsealed bags or in unsealed containers, in the case of—
3. (3) Compound feeding stuffs may be sold in bulk, or in unsealed containers, but not in unsealed bags, in the case of—
10 · Control of feed materials
1. (1) No person shall put into circulation any feed material of a description specified in column (3) of Part II of Schedule 2, under a name other than that speci
2. (2) No person shall put into circulation any feed material of a description specified in column (1) of Part III of Schedule 2, except under a name or descriptio
3. (3) No person shall— unless, in either case, the feed material was prepared by the process specified, in relation to the common name or term, in column (2), and
4. (4) No person shall put into circulation any feed material, or sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, any compound feeding stuff containing any feed m
5. (5) No person shall use any feed material to bind another feed material, if the quantity of the feed material so used exceeds 3 per cent of the total weight of
6. (6) Without prejudice to sections 73 and 73A, no person shall import into England from any country which is neither a member State nor another part of the Unite
7. (7) No person shall put into circulation any feed material in a manner likely to mislead.
8. (8) In paragraph 4(a) above “description” shall be taken to exclude any botanical purity requirement.
11 · Applications for Community authorisation of additives and of new uses for additives
1. (1) Any person wishing the United Kingdom to act as the rapporteur in connection with— may submit to the Agency an application for the Community authorisation o
2. (2) Where documentation is submitted to the Agency pursuant to paragraph (1) above, it shall— in accordance with Article 4.3 of the Additives Directive, if it i
3. (3) The Agency is satisfied in accordance with this paragraph if it is satisfied that—
4. (4) If, in relation to a dossier submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) above, the Agency is not satisfied about both the matters specified in paragraph (3) above,
5. (5) Where the Agency rejects documentation submitted to it pursuant to paragraph (1) above, or postpones taking the action specified in paragraph (2) above in r
6. (6) If requested to do so by the Commission, the Agency shall forward a copy of all or part of a dossier relating to any additive for which an application has b
12 · Confidential information relating to additives
1. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, no person shall publish or disclose any confidential information obtained by him in the performance of functions un
2. (2) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall restrict the publication or disclosure of such information for the purpose of the exercise of functions under regulatio
3. (3) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall prevent the publication or disclosure of confidential information of a type specified in Article 7.2 of the Additives D
4. (4) In this regulation, “confidential information” means information of the type specified in Article 7.1 of the Additives Directive.
5. (5) A publication or disclosure in contravention of paragraph (1) above shall be punishable as if it were a disclosure prohibited by section 83.
13 · Control of additives in feeding stuffs
1. (1) No person shall use an additive for the purpose of animal nutrition unless any incorporation thereof in a feeding stuff accords with paragraph (2) to (4) be
2. (2) Subject to regulation 23 and paragraph (8) below, no person shall carry out a relevant activity in relation to an additive, unless—
3. (3) In paragraph (2) above, “relevant activity”, in relation to an additive, means any one or more of the following—
4. (4) Without prejudice to paragraph (2) above, no person shall incorporate any additive into a feed material, unless—
5. (5) Paragraphs (1) to (4) above shall not apply to any added substance which is—
6. (6) Subject to paragraph (8) below, no person shall put into circulation, for use as a feeding stuff, any complementary feeding stuff which, when diluted as spe
7. (7) No person shall—
8. (8) Paragraph (2) above, in so far as it regulates “putting into circulation”, and paragraph (6) above, shall not apply in relation to any additive which is exc
9. (9) No person shall use as a feeding stuff any material containing an additive (not being one permitted to be contained in material pursuant to paragraph 5(1) o
14 · Control of feeding stuffs and feed materials containing undesirable substances
1. (1) No person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a feeding stuff, or use as a feeding stuff, any material specified in column 2 o
2. (2) No person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a feeding stuff, or use as a feeding stuff, any complementary feeding stuff if—
3. (3) No person shall put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 7, which contains any substance specified i
4. (4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3) above, and subject to paragraph (5) below, no person shall put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 o
5. (5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) above, no UK or EC establishment shall be considered an approved establishment unless—
6. (6) No person shall mix with any feeding stuff or feed material, any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 7, if the feed mate
7. (7) No person shall put into circulation any feed material unless it is—
8. (8) For the purposes of paragraph (7) above, and without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (3) above, a feed material is not sound, genuine and of mercha
9. (9) Where a person has or has had in his possession or control, for the purposes of a trade or business, any feeding stuff or feed material and becomes aware— h
10. (10) For the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this regulation—
15 · Control of compound feeding stuffs containing prohibited materials
1. (1) No person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a compound feeding stuff, or use as a compound feeding stuff, any material which
2. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, except sub-paragraph (e), “waste” shall mean material of any applicable category listed in Annex 1 to Council Direc
16 · Control of certain protein sources
1. (1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, no person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a feeding stuff or as a protein source
2. (2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, no person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, for use as a feeding stuff, or use as a feeding stuff, any
3. (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) above shall not apply in relation to any material or product excluded from application of the Certain Products Directive by Article 1
4. (4) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the circumstances authorised for derogation by Article 3.2 of the Certain Products Directive.
17 · Control of the iron content of milk replacer feeds
18 · Control of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid in compound feeding stuffs
1. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale—
2. (2) Paragraph (1)(b) above shall not apply to the sale of any compound feeding stuff which— if the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid is declared in th
19 · Control of feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes, and supplementary provisions relating to statutory statement
1. (1) No person shall sell, or have in possession with a view to sale, any feeding stuff intended for a particular nutritional purpose unless—
2. (2) Schedule 10 shall have effect as specified in Schedule 4.
20 · Modification of the Agriculture Act 1970 in relation to all feeding stuffs
1. (1) Subsection (1) of section 66 shall have effect in England as if—
2. (2) Subsection (2)(b) of section 66 shall have effect in England as if the following were substituted for it— “2 b material shall be treated— i as imported or s
3. (3) Sections 73 and 73A shall have effect in England as if, for the words “animals of any description prescribed for the purpose of the definition of “feeding s
4. (4) Section 85 shall have effect in England as if—
21 · Modification of the Agriculture Act 1970 in relation to imported feeding stuffs
1. (1) In relation to feeding stuffs which have been imported, section 69(1) shall continue to have effect in England subject to the modifications provided for in
2. (2) The words “and in either case before it is removed from the premises” shall be deleted.
22 · Exemption from these Regulations
23 · Further exemption from these Regulations
24 · Enforcement of provisions made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972
25 · Modification of section 74A(3) of the Agriculture Act 1970
1. (1) In relation to England, for the purposes of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) below, section 74A(3) shall have effect as if, for the words “regulati
2. (2) The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) above are regulations 10(1), (2), (3)(a), (4) (in relation to putting into circulation) (6) and (
26 · Revocations
27 · Modification of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999
1. (a) paragraph 5(1) of Part II of Schedule 1 shall have effect in England as if the words “section 76(1)(b) of the Act” read “section 76(7) of the Act, as that s
2. (b) the references in paragraph 3(e)(ii) of Part I of Schedule 2, and paragraph 11(a) of Part II of Schedule 3, to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995”, shall
3. (c) the second entry for Starch (polarimetric method), in Annex I to Part II to Schedule 2, shall have effect in England as if, for the provisions relating to t
28 · Modification of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999
1. (1) The provisions of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 specified in paragraph (2) below shall have effect in England as i
2. (2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) above are regulations 98(8) and (9), 99 and 106(1).
29 · Modification of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999
1. (a) in regulation 7(2) and (4), the references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995”, shall have effect in relation to England as if they read “the Feeding S
2. (b) in regulation 8, the reference to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 shall have effect in relation to England as if it were a refer
3. (c) regulation 9 shall have effect in relation to England as if, for the provisions of that regulation, there were substituted the following provisions: “9 In E
4. (d) regulation 10 shall, in so far as it modifies section 76 in relation to England, be read as if, in that section as so modified—
Schedule 1 · Method of calculating the energy value of compound feeds
Schedule 2 · Control of feed materials
1. Part I Principal processes used for the preparation of the feed materials listed in part II of this schedule
2. Part II Non-exclusive list of the main feed materials
3. Part III Other feed materials
Schedule 3 · Permitted additives and provisions relating to their use
1. (1) In this Schedule “material” means “material intended for use as a feeding stuff”, and any reference to a numbered Part is a reference to the Part bearing th
2. (2) No material shall contain any added antioxidant named or described in columns 2 and 3 of Part I unless, taking into account any such antioxidant which is na
3. (3) No material shall contain any added colourant named or described in columns 2 and 3 of Part II unless—
4. (4) No material shall contain any added emulsifier, stabiliser, thickener or gelling agent named or described in column 2 of Chapter B of Part III unless—
5. (5)
6. (6)
7. (7) No material shall contain—
8. (8)
9. (9) No material shall contain any acidity regulator, except that material intended for use as a pet food for dogs or cats may contain any of the acidity regulat
10. (10) Unless otherwise stated, any maximum or minimum specified for the content in any feeding stuff of any additive, in the relevant Part of Parts I to VIII, or
11. (11) The second paragraph of Article 9q1 of the Additives Directive shall have effect in relation to any additive covered by a European Community Regulation spe
12. Table Additives controlled by the additives directive
Schedule 4 · Contents of the statutory statement or other declaration (except for additives and premixtures not contained in feeding stuffs)
1. Part I
2. Part II Declaration of analytical constituents
Schedule 5 · Contents of the statutory statement (for additives and premixtures not contained in feeding stuffs)
1. Part I Additives
2. Part II Premixtures
Schedule 6 · Limits of variation
1. Part a— Compound feeding stuffs except those for pets
2. Part b— Compound pet foods
3. Part C— Feed materials
4. Part D— Vitamins and trace elements
5. Part e— Energy value of compound feeding stuffs
Schedule 7 · Prescribed limits for undesirable substances
1. Part I Feeding stuffs
2. Part II Feed materials
Schedule 8 · Control of certain protein sources
Schedule 9 · Permitted feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes and provisions relating to their use
1. Chapter a
2. Chapter b
Schedule 10 · Categories of feed materials for use in relation to compound feeding stuffs
1. Part I Categories of feed materials for use in relation to compound feeding stuffs for pet animals
2. Part II Categories of feed materials for use in relation to compound feeding stuffs for animals other than pets

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