The Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Wales) Regulations 2018

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“designated product” (“cynnyrch dynodedig”) means any product specified in the third column of the table in Schedule 1 (as read with the Notes to that Schedule) ready for delivery to a final consumer or to a mass caterer;

“partly dehydrated milk” (“llaeth wedi ei ddadhydradu’n rhannol”) means the liquid product, whether or not sweetened, obtained by the partial removal of water from milk, wholly or partly skimmed milk or a mixture of these products and includes such a product to which cream or totally dehydrated milk (or both) has been added, provided that the addition of totally dehydrated milk does not exceed, in the finished product, 25% of total milk solids;

“reserved description” (“disgrifiad neilltuedig”), as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in the first column of the table in Schedule 1 or any alternative description permitted by Schedule 2;

“sell” (“gwerthu”) includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;

“totally dehydrated milk” (“llaeth wedi ei ddadhydradu’n llwyr”) means the solid product, where the water content does not exceed 5% by weight of the finished product, obtained by removal of water from milk, wholly or partly skimmed milk, cream or a mixture of those products;

“total milk solids” (“cyfanswm y solidau llaeth”) means all the constituents of milk other than water, including milk fat, the constituents other than milk fat being present in their natural proportions;

“Welsh equivalent reserved description” (“disgrifiad neilltuedig cyfatebol Cymraeg”), as respects any designated product, means the Welsh language description in relation to that product specified in the second column of the table in Schedule 1 or the Welsh language equivalent specified in Schedule 2 of any alternative description permitted by that Schedule.

(2) In this regulation, “final consumer” (“defnyddiwr olaf”) means any person who buys otherwise than for—

(a) resale;

(b) a mass caterer;

(c) a manufacturing business.

(3) In this regulation, “mass caterer” (“arlwywr mawr”) means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the final consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation and, for the purposes of this definition, “preparation” (“paratoi”) includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment.

(4) In these Regulations, references to the following European instruments and Annex are references to those instruments and that Annex as amended from time to time—

(a) Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives(1);

(b) Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods(2);

(c) First Commission Directive 79/1067/EEC laying down Community methods of analysis for testing certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption(3);

(d) the Annex to First Commission Directive 87/524/EEC laying down Community methods of sampling for chemical analysis for the monitoring of preserved milk products(4).

(1)

OJ No L 354, 31.12.08, p 16, last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/874 (OJ No L 134, 23.5.17, p 18).

(2)

OJ No L 404, 30.12.06, p 26, last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1203 (OJ No L 173, 6.7.17, p 9).

(3)

OJ No L 327, 24.12.79, p 29.

(4)

OJ No L 306, 28.10.87, p 24.