Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Commission Directive 96/11/EC (O.J. No. L61, 12.3.96, p. 26), amending Directive 90/128/EEC (O.J. No. L75, 21.3.90, p. 19, as read with the corrigendum in O.J. No. L349, 13.12.90, p. 26) relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs.

The Regulations—

(a) modify the prohibition in regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations on manufacture of plastic materials and articles before and after specified dates, using monomers other than those specified, by substituting later dates (regulation 2(3)(a)(ii) and (iii));

(b) permit, until 1st January 1999, the manufacture of plastic materials and articles, using monomers specified in Section F (as inserted by regulation 2(8) and Schedule 3 into Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations) (regulation 2(4));

(c) add specified monomers to those monomers authorised without time limit specified in Section A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 2(5) and Schedule 1);

(d) substitute for the list of monomers in Section B of Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (monomers authorised up to the end of 1996) an amended list, omitting certain monomers previously included, those remaining being authorised up to the end of 2001 (regulation 2(6) and Schedule 2);

(e) add specified additives to those which are specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations, and which it is prohibited to use, if they are not of good technical quality, in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles (regulation 2(9) and Schedule 4); and

(f) make consequential amendments to the principal Regulations (regulation 2(2), (3)(a)(i) and (b), and (7)).