The Animal Feedingstuffs from Belgium (Control) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Animal Feedingstuffs from Belgium (Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for the implementation, in relation to products for animal feeding, of—

(a) Commission Decision 1999/363/EC on protective measures with regards to the contamination by dioxins of certain animal products intended for human or animal consumption (O.J. No. L141, 4.6.1999, p. 24) and Commission Decision 1999/389/EC on protective measures with regards to contamination by dioxins of products intended for human consumption derived from bovine animals and pigs and revoking Decision 1999/368/EC (O.J. No. L147, 12.6.1999, p. 26) in so far as those Decisions extend to products containing products of Belgian origin;

(b) Commission Decision 1999/390/EC on protective measures with regards to contamination by dioxins of certain products of animal origin intended for human or animal consumption and amending Decision 1999/363/EC and Decision 1999/389/EC (O.J. No. L147, 12.6.1999, p. 29); and

(c) Commission Decision 1999/419/EC amending Decisions 1999/363/EC and 1999/389/EC as regards protective measures with regard to contamination of certain products by dioxins (O.J. No. L159, 25.6.1999, p. 60).

The Regulations—

(a) extend the prohibition on imports and exports for any purpose but provide for exemptions in respect of imports which are accompanied by appropriate certification and return of products to Belgium under cover of an official certificate (regulation 4);

(b) amend the offence provision in regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (regulation 5); and

(c) further extend the application of Article 33 of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (regulation 6).