Drinking Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations make provisions for the enforcement and execution of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2597/97 laying down additional rules on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products for drinking milk (“the Council Regulation”).

The Regulations—

(a) prohibit the sale or delivery of milk, or the use of or failure to use a sales description for any product, in contravention of the Council Regulation (regulation 3);

(b) prohibit the importation from outside the European Community of a product for sale as drinking milk in contravention of the Council Regulation (regulation 4);

(c) specify the enforcement authority (regulation 5) and create offences and prescribe a penalty (regulation 6);

(d) provide a defence in relation to exports, in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Council Directive 89/397/EEC (O.J. No. L186, 30.6.89, p. 23) on the official control of foodstuffs, as read with the ninth recital to that Directive (regulation 7);

(e) apply various provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (regulation 8);

(f) revoke the statutory provisions specified in the Schedule to the extent specified (regulation 9), and make consequential amendments (regulation 10).