Amendments to the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998
5. In regulation 3 (restriction on the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles)—
(a)for the heading there shall be substituted the following heading—
“Restriction on the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles, adhesives and materials and articles covered by surface coatings”;
(b)in paragraphs (1) and (2), immediately after the references to “plastic material or article”, wherever they appear, there shall be inserted references to “, adhesive or material or article covered by a surface coating”;
(c)in sub-paragraph (4)(a)(iii) the word “or” shall be deleted;
(d)for sub-paragraph (4)(a)(iv) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(iv)it does not comply with regulation 4(5), (5A) or (5B), 4A(4), (5) or (6), 5(4), (4A), (4B) or (4C), 7 or 7A(1) or 8A(4), (5) or (6); or”; and
(e)immediately after sub-paragraph (4)(a)(iv) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(v)it has been manufactured in contravention of a prohibition contained in regulation 4A(1), (2) or (3),”.
(f)there shall be added at the end the following paragraph—
“(5) For the purposes of this regulation, an adhesive or a material or article covered by a surface coating fails to meet the requisite standards if—
(i)it has been manufactured in contravention of a prohibition contained in regulation 8A(1), (2) or (3), or
(ii)it does not comply with regulation 8A(4), (5) or (6).”.