(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and implement Commission Directive 2000/45/EC establishing Community methods of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, vitamin E and tryptophan in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L174, 13.7.2000, p. 32).
The Regulations—
(a)amend the 1999 Regulations by prescribing a revised method of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, and new methods for the determination of vitamin E and tryptophan, in feeding stuffs, and in the cases of vitamins A and E, in premixtures (regulation 4), and
(b)make minor and consequential amendments to those Regulations, the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 (regulations 3 and 5-8).