The Bread and Flour (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st July 1996, amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”).

These Regulations—

(a) in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, insert a definition of “enzyme preparation” and amend the definition of “flour treatment agent” to exclude enzyme preparations (regulation 2(a));

(b) amend regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to more clearly provide that bread and flour lawfully produced in one member State and brought into Great Britain from another member State in which it was lawfully sold is exempt from the principal Regulations (regulation 2(b));

(c) amend regulation 5 of the principal Regulations to remove the prohibition and restrictions on the use of enzyme preparations as ingredients of flour and bread and make a corresponding amendment to Schedule 3 (regulation 2(c) and (e) respectively);

(d) amend regulation 10 of the principal Regulations to make it consistent with regulation 7 (regulation 2(d)).