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The Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996

Milk and dairy products

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2011-07-04

FOOD

MILK AND DAIRIES

These Regulations, which apply to Scotland, amend the Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations–implement Article 2 of, as read with Annex B to, Commission Decision 95/165/EC establishing uniform criteria for the grant of derogations to certain establishments manufacturing milk-based products (regulations 3(a) and 5);implement Commission Decision 95/340/EC drawing up a provisional list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of milk and milk-based products and revoking Decision 94/70/EC, as amended by Commission Decision 96/106/EC, and as read with Articles 22 and 23(2)(a) of Council Directive 92/46/EEC laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products (OJ No. L268, 14.9.92, p.1.) (regulations 3(a) and 8);make some corrections to the principal Regulations to reflect provisions in Council Directive 92/46/EEC relating to heat-treated drinking milk (regulation 10) and the health mark (regulation 12);provide a defence to a charge of selling raw drinking milk that the milk is intended for export (regulation 7);clarify the provisions in the principal Regulations relating to risk analysis principles (regulation 3(a)(v)) and exemptions (regulation 4) and make a few drafting amendments (regulations 6, 9 and 11) and a consequential amendment (regulation 3(a)(iii)).