Medicated Feedingstuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 154

MEDICINES

Medicated Feedingstuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

30th March 2004

Coming into operation

1st April 2004

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, having carried out any consultation required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Medicated Feedingstuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004.

Amendment of the Medicated Feedingstuffs Regulations 1998

2.—(1) The Medicated Feedingstuffs Regulations 1998(4) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) For Schedule 1 (Fees) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 30th March 2004.

L.S.

David Small

A Senior Officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Regulation 2(2)

SCHEDULE

Regulation 35

“SCHEDULE 1

PART 1 fees payable in relation to the grant or renewal of approvals of premises

Application	Fee	Previous fee
	£	£
Grant or renewal of an approval of premises to manufacture an authorised intermediate product	350	318
Grant or renewal of an approval of premises to manufacture medicated feedingstuffs incorporating medicated pre-mixes at any concentration	350	318
Grant or renewal of an approval of premises to manufacture medicated feedingstuffs incorporating medicated pre-mixes at a concentration of 2 kg per tonne or more only	258	234
Grant or renewal of an approval of premises to manufacture medicated feedingstuffs incorporating medicated pre-mixes at a concentration of 2 kg per tonne or more for the manufacturer’s own use	106	96

Note

Where more than one of the above activities is carried on at one premises, only one fee is payable, which shall be higher (or, as the case may be, the highest) fee payable for any one of those activities.

PART II fees payable in relation to the grant or renewal of approvals of distributors

Application	Fee	Previous fee
	£	£
Grant or renewal of approval of distributors	56	51”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Medicated Feedingstuffs Regulations 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”). The 1998 Regulations (as amended) continue to implement Council Directive 90/167/EEC (O.J. No. L92, 7.4.90, p. 42) laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the Community.

They provide (at regulation 2 and the Schedule) for new fees payable for applications in respect of the approval, or renewal of approval, of –

• premises manufacturing authorised intermediate products;

• premises manufacturing medicated feedingstuffs incorporating medicated pre-mixes; and

• distributors of medicated feedingstuffs.

The previous fees are shown in the Schedule for comparison purposes.

(1)

S.I. 2000/2812

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1 (laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety)

(4)

S.I. 1998/1046; relevant amendments are S.I. 2000/1686 and S.R. 2002 No. 161