The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018

The Contaminants in Food (Wales) Regulations 2013

23.—(1) The Contaminants in Food (Wales) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a) in paragraph (1), omit the definitions of “Directive 76/621”, “Directive 80/891”, “Regulation 629/2008” and “Regulation 165/2010”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) omit “Directive 76/621, Directive 80/891,”;

(ii) omit “Directive or”;

(c) in paragraph (3)—

(i) omit “Directive 76/621, Directive 80/891,”;

(ii) omit “Directives or”;

(d) in paragraph (4)(a), omit “or 7”.

(3) Omit regulations 3 and 4.

(4) In regulation 5—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the EU provisions specified in paragraph (2) is guilty of an offence.”;

(b) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) The level of erucic acid in a food must be determined according to sampling methods, and methods of analysis that meet the performance criteria, set out in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/705 laying down methods of sampling and performance criteria for the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of erucic acid in foodstuffs and repealing Commission Directive 80/891/EEC(2).”

(5) In regulation 6, omit “regulation 4(3) or”.

(6) In regulation 8—

(a) in paragraph (1)(c)(i), omit “4(3) or”;

(b) in paragraph (2), in the application and modification of section 9 of the Food Safety Act 1990, omit “4(1) or”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/2493 (W. 242), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

OJ No L 113, 1.5.2015, p. 29.