CHAPTER IICOMPOSITIONAL AND INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
SECTION 2Specific requirements
Article 14Technical guidelines
F1The Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers may adopt technical guidelines to facilitate compliance by food business operators, in particular F2small or medium sized enterprises as defined in the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, with this Chapter and Chapter III F3, as it applies in their territory. For the purposes of this Article, the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises is to be read as if—
(a)
in Article 2—
(i)
in paragraph 1, for “EUR 50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million” there were substituted “£44,000,000, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding £38,000,000”
;
(ii)
in paragraph 2, for “EUR 10 million” there were substituted “£8,800,000”
;
(iii)
in paragraph 3, for “EUR 2 million” there were substituted “£1,750,000”
;
(b)
in Article 3—
(i)
in paragraph 2(a), for “EUR 1 250 000” there were substituted “£1,100,000”
;
(ii)
in paragraph 2(d), for “EUR 10 million” there were substituted “£8,800,000”
;
(iii)
in paragraph 5, for “by national or Community rules” there were substituted “under the law of Great Britain (or any part of it)”
;
(c)
in Article 5, in paragraph (b), for “national law” there were substituted “the law of Great Britain (or any part of it)”.