The Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005; and shall come into operation on 25th November 2005.

Amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2.  The Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland)1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 7.

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “Directive 2000/13”, from “and Commission Directive 2002/67/EC” to the end there shall be substituted “, Commission Directive 2002/67/EC(2) on the labelling of foodstuffs containing quinine, and of foodstuffs containing caffeine and Commission Directive 2005/26/EC(3) establishing a list of food ingredients or substances provisionally excluded from Annex IIIa of Directive 2000/13/EC”.

4.  In regulation 13(8)(c) (order of list of ingredients) there shall be inserted at the end “other than, until 25th November 2007, ingredients which originate from an allergenic ingredient and are listed in column 2 of Schedule 2A in relation to that allergenic ingredient”.

5.  In regulation 34B (foods containing allergenic ingredients or ingredients originating from allergenic ingredients) —

(a) in paragraph (1) for “Subject to paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(b) there shall be inserted at the beginning “subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation,”;

(c) there shall be inserted at the end the following —

“(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2)(b) of this regulation shall not apply before 25th November 2007 as respects any ingredient which originates from an allergenic ingredient and is listed in column 2 of Schedule 2A in relation to that allergenic ingredient.”.

6.  In regulation 50(12)(b)(iii) (transitional provision) there shall be inserted after the number “12” “(as read with regulation 5 of the Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005)”.

7.  After Schedule 2 (indications of treatment) there shall be inserted as Schedule 2A the contents of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 15th August 2005

L.S.

Dr McCormick

A senior officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety