The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement the following European Community Directives:

• Commission Directive 95/33/EC (OJ No. L167, 18.7.95, p.17) amending Council Directive 82/471/EEC concerning certain products used in animal nutrition;

• Commission Decision 95/274/EC (OJ No. L167, 18.7.95, p.24) amending Commission Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feeding stuffs;

• Commission Directive 96/6/EC (OJ No. L49, 28.2.96, p.29) amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition;

• Commission Directive 96/7/EC (OJ No. L51, 1.3.96, p.45) amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feeding stuffs.

The principal changes are contained in—

(a) regulation 5(a)— which modifies certain provisions in regulation 15 of the principal Regulations by providing that the requirements in those provisions currently regulating importation into Great Britain from countries other than Member States of the European Community of feeding stuffs and ingredients containing certain substances shall apply instead to their importation from any country not a signatory to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;

(b) regulation 5(b)— which modifies the prohibition in regulation 15(11)(b) of the principal Regulations on the use of treated hide in compound feeding stuffs;

(c) regulation 8(b)— which amends the entry in Part VI of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations relating to the additive Iodine;

(d) regulation 9— which amends the entry in Chapter B of Part I of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations relating to the substance Aflatoxin B1;

(e) regulation 10— which amends Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations by adding new provisions relating to Bacteria cultivated on natural gas and amending the entry relating to item 3.2.2— Concentrated liquid L— Lysine (base).

In addition the Regulations make minor drafting and textual amendments (regulations 4, 5(c), 6, 7 and 8(a)).