The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 4

PART 2 N.I. Enforcement of Regulation 178/2002

Interpretation of this Part N.I.

3.  In this Part any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in Regulation 178/2002.

Offence of failing to comply with any specified provision of Regulation 178/2002 N.I.

4.—(1) Any person who fails to comply with any provision specified in paragraph (2) commits an offence.

(2) The specified provisions are —

(a) Article 12, in so far as it relates to feed (conditions on export or re-export to third countries);

(b) Article 15(1) (prohibition on the placing on the market or feeding to any animal of unsafe feed);

(c) Article 16, in so far as it relates to feed (prohibition on misleading labelling, advertising or presentation);

(d) Article 18(2) and (3) (requirements that operators must have traceability information and make such information available to competent authorities) in so far as they relate to feed business operators; and

(e) Article 20 (responsibilities of feed business operators regarding feed that does not satisfy feed safety requirements).

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 178/2002 N.I.

5.  The competent authority —

(a) for the purposes of Articles 15 and 18 is DARD; and

(b) for the purposes of Article 20 is DARD or the Agency.