Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 No. 264

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments to the Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

1.  In regulation 3 (general restriction on importing live bivalve molluscs or other shellfish), in paragraph (1)(a)(i), for “and the Reference Laboratories Decision are satisfied” there shall be substituted “are satisfied and the control system to which they have been subject in accordance with Chapter VI of the Annex to the Council Directive includes provision for the laboratory tests mentioned in paragraph 3 of that Chapter to be carried out at a national reference laboratory responsible for the tasks set out in Article 2.1 of the Reference Laboratories Decision”.

2.  In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (approved import conditions), after “Commission Decision 93/530/EEC” there shall be inserted “, Commission Decision 94/767/EC (1) and Commission Decision 96/31/EC(2).”

3.  After paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, there shall be added:

“2.   Commission Decision 94/777/EC laying down special conditions for the import of live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods originating in Turkey(3), as amended by Commission Decision 95/275/EC(4) and Commission Decision 96/31/EC.

3.   Commission Decision 95/174/EC laying down special conditions for the import of live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods originating in Peru(5).

4.   Commission Decision 95/453/EC laying down special conditions for the import of live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods originating in the Republic of Korea(6).”.

(1)

O.J. No. L305, 30.11.94, p. 36

(2)

O.J. No. L9, 12.1.96, p. 6

(3)

O.J. No. L312, 6.12.94, p. 35

(4)

O.J. No. L167, 18.7.95, p. 26

(5)

O.J. No. L116, 23.5.95, p. 47

(6)

O.J. No. L264, 7.11.95, p. 35