1. These Regulations may be cited as the Food Hygiene and Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.
2.—(1) The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006(1) are amended in accordance with this Regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition beginning “Decision 2006/766”—
(a)for “and” substitute “,”; and
(b)after “Regulation 1079/2013” insert “and Regulation 579/2014(2).”.
(3) In Schedule 1 (definitions of EU legislation), after the definition of Regulation 1079/2013, insert—
““Regulation 579/2014” means Commission Regulation (EU) No. 579/2014 granting derogation from certain provisions of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council as regards the transport of liquid oils and fats by sea(3).”.
(4) In Schedule 2 (specified Community provisions), in the third entry (referring to Article 4(2) of Regulation 852/2004), at the end of column 2 (subject-matter), omit the full stop and insert “and Regulation 579/2014(4).”.
(5) In Schedule 3 (bulk transport in sea-going vessels of liquid oils or fats or of raw sugar)—
(a)omit paragraphs 2 to 6;
(b)in paragraph 14(1) omit “Commission Directive 96/3/EC or”; and
(c)omit paragraph 14(2).
3.—(1) The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009(5) are amended in accordance with this Regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—
(a)for the definition beginning “Directive 2004/41”, substitute—
““Directive 2004/41”, “Regulation 999/2001”, “Regulation 178/2002”, “Regulation 852/2004”, “Regulation 853/2004”, “Regulation 882/2004”, “Regulation 1688/2005”, “Regulation 2073/2005”, “Regulation 2074/2005”, “Regulation 1020/2008”, “Regulation 669/2009”; “Regulation 211/2013(6)”; and “Regulation 702/2013” have the meanings respectively given to them in Schedule 1;”; and
(b)for the definition of “the Import Provisions” substitute—
““the Import Provisions” means Part 3 of these Regulations, Article 14 of Regulation 882/2004 in so far as it applies to official controls to verify compliance with aspects of feed or food law not covered by Directive 97/78/EC(7), Articles 15 to 24 of Regulation 882/2004, Regulation 669/2009, Regulation 211/2013(8) and Regulation 704/2014 amending Regulation 211/2013 on certification requirements for import into the Union of sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts(9);”.
(3) In Schedule 1 (definitions of EU legislation)—
(a)after the definition of “Regulation 669/2009” omit “and” and insert—
““Regulation 211/2013” means Commission Regulation (EU) No. 211/2013 on certification requirements for imports into the Union of sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts(10); and”.
ALEX NEIL
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
29th July 2014