Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement—

(a) Directive 2000/16/EC of the European Parliament and the Council amending Council Direstive 79/393/EEC on the marketing of compounds feedingstuffs and Council Directive 96/25/EC on the circulation of feed materials (O.J. N0. L105, 3.5.2000, p. 36), and

(b) Commission Decision 2000/285/EEC amending Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L94, 14.4.2000, p. 43).

These Regulations also provide for the enforcement of the following new European Community Regulations—

(a) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2437/2000 concerning the permanent authorisation of an additive and the provisional authorisation of new additives in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L280, 4.11.2000, p. 28),

(b) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 418/2001 concerning the authorisation of new additives and uses of additives in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L62, 2.3.2001, p. 3), and

(c) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 937/2001 concerning the authorisation of new additive uses, new additive preparation, the prolongative of provisional authorisation and the 10 year authorisation of an additive in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L 130, 12.5.2001, p. 25).

The main changes to the principal Regulations are as follows:

(a) the controls on the sale and possession with a view to sale of compound feeding stuffs are extended to cover their supply other than by sale, and their possession with a view to such supply (regulations 6, 7, 12 and 16(a), (f), (g), (i), (j) and (k);

(b) prohibitions are added on the importation, supply, possession with a view to such supply and use of feed materials harmful to animals, to humans consuming products of such animals or to the environment. As regards the environment, the prohibition is applied also to sale and possession with a view to sale (regulation 8);

(c) the prohibition on the sale for use as a compound feeding stuff, or of “sludge from sewage plants treating waste water”, is replaced by one on the sale or use of “waste obtained from the treatment of waste water” (regulation 11);

(d) additional labelling requirements are prescribed for feed material and compound feeding stuffs (regulation 16(c) and (e) respectively);

(e) the scope of certain provisions, previously applying only in relation to member States of the European Community, is extended to cover all States which are signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (regulations 5, 10 and 17).

In addition, the Regulations make minor and consequential amendments to the principal Regulations and consequential amendments to the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999.