1

If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with a provision of the Food Additives, Flavourings. Enzymes and Extraction Solvents Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 specified in paragraph (1A), the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (an “improvement notice”)—

a

state the officer's grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;

b

specify the matters which constitute the person's failure so to comply;

c

specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and

d

require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.

1A

The provisions are-

a

Regulation 13(2); and

b

any EU provision specified in the first column of Table 2 of Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 4.