The Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2010

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”) means any person who has written authority from an enforcement authority to act in matters arising under or in relation to the Act or these Regulations;

• “breeding establishment” (“sefydliad bridio”) has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;

• “chicks” (“cywion”) has the meaning given by Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;

• “Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008” (“Rheoliad y Comisiwn (EC) Rhif 589/2008”) means Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs, as amended from time to time.

• “Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008” (“Rheoliad y Comisiwn (EC) Rhif 617/2008”) means Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs for hatching and farmyard poultry chicks, as amended from time to time;

• “Council Directive 1999/74/EC” (“Cyfarwyddeb y Cyngor 1999/74/EC”) means Council Directive 1999/74/EC(1) laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens;

• “Directive 2000/13/EC” (“Cyfarwyddeb 2000/13/EC”) means Directive 2000/13/EC(2) of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs;

• “door-to-door selling” (“gwerthu o dŷ i dŷ”) means a sale which is made during an unsolicited visit by a producer to the final consumer’s home, or to the home of another person, or to the final consumer’s place of work;

• “eggs” (“wyau”) has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (k) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008;

• “eggs for hatching” (“wyau deor”) has the meaning given by Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;

• “enforcement authority” (“awdurdod gorfodi”) means an authority exercising a function conferred on it by regulation 17;

• “final consumer” (“defnyddiwr terfynol”) has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (r) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008;

• “food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) means a county council or a county borough council;

• “hatchery” (“deorfa”) has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(c) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;

• “local public market” (“marchnad gyhoeddus leol”), in relation to eggs laid at a production site, means—

  (a)

  a public market that is within an 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site; or

  (b)

  where a public market is partly within an 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site and partly outside an 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site, the whole of that market;

• “market” (“marchnad”), when used as a noun, means—

  (a)

  a market or fair for which the right to hold it was acquired by virtue of a grant (including a presumed grant) or acquired or established by virtue of an enactment or subordinate legislation; and

  (b)

  a temporary market—

  (i)

  comprising of a concourse of buyers and sellers of articles held otherwise than in a building or on a highway, with not less than five stalls, stands, vehicles (whether moveable or not) or pitches from which articles are sold; and

  (ii)

  for which any notice required under section 37(2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982(3) has been given;

• “officer” (“swyddog”)—

  (a)

  in relation to a body corporate, means a director, member of the committee of management, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body; and

  (b)

  in relation to an unincorporated body, means any member of its governing body or a chief executive, manager or other similar officer of the body;

• “packing centre” (“canolfan becynnu”) has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (q) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008;

• “pedigree breeding establishment” (“sefydliad bridio pedigri”) has the meaning given by Article 1(3)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;

• “penalty” (“cosb”) means the amount specified in a penalty notice;

• “penalty notice” (“hysbysiad cosb”) means a notice offering the opportunity, by payment of a specified amount in accordance with these Regulations, to discharge any liability to be convicted of the penalty offence to which the notice relates;

• “penalty offence” (“tramgwydd cosb”) means an offence for which a penalty notice may be given under regulation 30;

• “production site” (“safle cynhyrchu”) has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (p) of the second paragraph of Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008;

• “region” (“rhanbarth”) means an electoral region within the meaning of section 1(2)(b) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002;

• “region of production” (“rhanbarth cynhyrchu”), in relation to eggs marketed by a producer direct to a final consumer by door-to-door selling or at a local public market, means—

  (a)

  where the production site at which those eggs are produced is in one region—

  (i)

  the area within a 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site; and

  (ii)

  any part of that region that is outside of that 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site; and

  (b)

  where the production site at which those eggs are produced is partly in one region and partly in one or more other regions—

  (i)

  the area comprising of the area within a 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site; and

  (ii)

  any part of the largest region into which the site falls that is outside of the 80 kilometre radius of the boundary of the production site;

• “Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003” (“Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 2160/2003”) means Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003(4) of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of Salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents; and

• “Single CMO Regulation” (“y Rheoliad Sengl CMO”) means Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation), as amended from time to time.

(2) Any expression which is not defined in paragraph (1) but is used in Part 2 of, or Schedule 1 to, these Regulations and in Part C of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation has the same meaning in those provisions of these Regulations as it does in the Single CMO Regulation.

(3) Any expression which is not defined in paragraph (1) but is used in Part 3 or 4 of, or Schedule 2 to, these Regulations and in Part A of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation, or Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, has the same meaning in those provisions of these Regulations as it does in the EC Regulation in which it is used.

(4) Any expression which is not defined in paragraph (1) but is used in Schedule 3 to these Regulations and in Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 has the same meaning in Schedule 3 as it does in Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003.

(5) Any reference to a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision mentioned in Schedule 1 means a contravention of or failure to comply with–

(a) any provision of the Single CMO Regulation mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or

(b) any provision of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 mentioned in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part.

(6) Any reference to a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision mentioned in Schedule 2 means a contravention of or failure to comply with–

(a) any provision of the Single CMO Regulation mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or

(b) any provision of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 mentioned in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part.

(7) Any reference to a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision mentioned in Schedule 3 means a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 3, as read with any provision mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Schedule.

(1)

OJ No L 203, 3.8.1999, p 53, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 (OJ No L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(2)

OJ No L 109, 6.5.2000, p. 29, last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 354, 31.12.2008, p. 34).

(3)

1982 c. 30 as read with section 17(5) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).

(4)

OJ No L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 1, last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 213/2009 (OJ No L 73, 19.3.2009, p. 5).