The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2010

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 2287 (W.199)

AGRICULTURE, WALES

The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2010

Made

15 September 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

17 September 2010

Coming into force

11 October 2010

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 67(5), 74A, 79(9) and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1), and under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2).

The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health(3), the common agricultural policy of the European Union(4) and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals(5).

There has been consultation during the preparation of these Regulations in accordance with the requirements of section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 or, as appropriate, of Article 9 of 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(6).

(1)

1970 c. 40. Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “the Ministers”, “prescribed” and “regulations”. The definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and thereafter transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32).

(4)

S.I. 2005/2766. Functions of the National Assembly for Wales under this designation and the designation under S.I. 2005/1971 were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006.

(6)

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468 with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).