The Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) Regulations 2008

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Agency” (“yr Asiantaeth”) means the Food Standards Agency;

“authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”), in relation to a feed authority or a food authority, means any person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who is authorised by it in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under these Regulations;

“the Commission Decision” (“Penderfyniad y Comisiwn”) means Commission Decision 2008/289/EC on emergency measures regarding the unauthorised genetically modified organism “Bt 63” in rice products(1) ;

“feed” (“bwyd anifeiliaid ”) has the meaning given to it in Article 3.4 of Regulation 178/2002;

“feed authority” (“awdurdod bwyd anifeiliaid”) means the authority required by section 67(1A) of the Agriculture Act 1970(2) to enforce that Act within its area;

“food” (“bwyd ”) has the meaning given to it in Article 2 of Regulation 178/2002;

“first placing on the market” (“rhoi gyntaf ar y farchnad ”) has the meaning that it bears in the Commission Decision;

“food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) has the meaning that it bears by virtue of section 5(1A) of the Food Safety Act 1990(3);

“operator” (“gweithredydd”) has the meaning that it bears in the Commission Decision;

“Regulation 178/2002” (“Rheoliad 178/2002”) means Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety; and

“specified product” (“cynnyrch penodedig”) means any product listed in the Annex to the Commission Decision that originates from or has been consigned from China.

(2) Where any functions under the Food Safety Act 1990 are assigned—

(a) by an order under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(4), to a port health authority; or

(b) by an order under section 6 of the Public Health Act 1936(5), to a joint board for a united district,

any reference in these Regulations to a food authority will be construed, so far as relating to those functions, as a reference to the authority to whom they are so assigned.

(1)

OJ No.L96, 9 .4. 2008, p.29.

(2)

1970 c. 40.

(3)

1990 c. 16.

(4)

1984 c. 22.

(5)

1936 c. 49; section 6 is to be read with paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Food Safety Act 1990.