The Feeding Stuffs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999

19.  For paragraph (1) of regulation 106 (methods of analysis), there shall be substituted–

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, for the purpose of determining, by means of analysis of a part of a sample taken in the course of the carrying out of official checks, whether a substance–

(a) of a kind listed in column 1 of Annex I to Part II of Schedule 2 to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999; or

(b) to which the method of analysis specified in Annex II or, as the case may be, in Annex III to Part II of Schedule 2 to those Regulations relates,

is present or active in it, and if it is, what quantity or proportion of such a substance is present or active in it, the provisions specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to those Regulations under the heading “GENERAL PROVISIONS” shall have effect, in the like manner as they have effect under those Regulations in relation to feeding stuffs, and–

(i) in relation to a substance of kind listed (whether by itself or by reference to its activity) in column 1 of Annex I to Part II of Schedule 2 to those Regulations, the relevant method of analysis set out in the Community provision specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Annex shall be used; and

(ii) in relation to a substance to which the method of analysis specified in Annex II or, as the case may be, in Annex III to Part II of Schedule 2 to those Regulations relates, the method of analysis applicable to that substance shall be used,

and where more than one Community provision is specified in column 2 of Annex I to Part II of Schedule 2 to those Regulations in relation to the same substance, the notes to that Annex shall have effect to specify which is the relevant method.”.