The Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Amendments to the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006

36.  In regulation 2—

(a) before the definition of “importer” insert—

““food” has the meaning set out in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;”;

(b) before the definition of “local weights and measures authority” insert—

““labelling requirements” means the requirements set out in regulations 5(1)(a), 5(2), 6(1)(a), 6(1)(b), 6(2), 7, 8(1) and 8(3)(d);”;

(c) before the definition of “Member State” insert—

““mass caterer” means any establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall), such as restaurants, canteens, schools, hospitals and catering enterprises in which, in the course of a business, food is prepared to be ready for consumption by the final consumer;”;

(d) in the definition of “nominal quantity”, after “or 6(2)” insert “or, in the case of pre-packed food, the net quantity as required under Regulation 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers”; and

(e) before the definition of “reference test” insert—

““pre-packed” means, in relation to food, any single item for presentation as such to the final consumer and to mass caterers, consisting of a food and the packaging into which it was put before being offered for sale, whether such packaging encloses the food completely or only partially, but in any event in such a way that the contents cannot be altered without opening or changing the packaging; ‘pre-packed food’ does not cover foods packed on the sales premises at the consumer’s request or pre-packed for direct sale;”.