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The Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) Regulations 2015

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PART 2Enforcement of Regulation 178/2002

Interpretation of this Part

3.  In this Part any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in Regulation 178/2002.

Offence of failing to comply with a specified provision of Regulation 178/2002

4.—(1) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision specified in paragraph (2) commits an offence.

(2) The specified provisions are —

(a)Article 12, in so far as it relates to feed (conditions on export or re-export to third countries);

(b)Article 15(1) (prohibition on the placing on the market or feeding to any animal of unsafe feed);

(c)Article 16, in so far as it relates to feed (prohibition on misleading labelling, advertising or presentation);

(d)Article 18(2) and (3) (requirements that operators must have traceability information and make such information available to competent authorities) in so far as they relate to feed business operators; and

(e)Article 20 (responsibilities of feed business operators regarding feed that does not satisfy feed safety requirements).

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 178/2002

5.  The competent authority —

(a)for the purposes of Articles 15 and 18 is the feed authority in its area or district; and

(b)for the purposes of Article 20 is the feed authority in its area or district or the Agency.

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