Transitional provisions
22.—(1) An authorised officer must not serve an improvement notice under Article 9(1) of the Order, as applied and modified by regulation 17, before 28th April 2015 if—
(a)the improvement notice would relate to food that was placed on the market or labelled, before 28th October 2013; and
(b)the matters constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 as they stood immediately before 28th October 2013.
(2) Before 28th October 2016, the following statement may appear on the label of a fruit juice, a fruit juice from concentrate, a concentrated fruit juice, a water extracted fruit juice or a dehydrated or powdered fruit juice, in the same field of vision as the name of the product—
“from 28 April 2015 no fruit juices contain added sugars”(1).
As regards the 28 April 2015 date in the statement, see the corrigendum correcting Article 3(2) of Directive 2012/12/EU published in OJ L 31, 31.1.2013, p 83