These Regulations amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the principal Regulations”).

These Regulations implement – a Commission Directive 2001/79/EC amending Council Directive 87/153/EEC fixing guidelines for the assessment of additives in animal nutrition (O.J. No. L267, 6.10.2001, p. 1); b Council Directive 2001/102/EC amending Directive 1999/29/EC on the undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition (O.J. No. L6, 10.1.2002, p. 45); and c Commission Directive 2002/1/EC amending Directive 94/39/EC as regards animal feedingstuffs for the support of liver function in case of chronic liver insufficiency.

These Regulations also provide for the enforcement of the following Commission Regulations – a Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2013/2001 concerning the provisional authorisation of a new additive use and the permanent authorisation of an additive in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L272, 13.10.2001, p. 24); b Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2200/2001 concerning provisional authorisation of additives in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L299, 15.11.2001, p. 1); and c Commission Regulation (EC) No. 256/2002 concerning the provisional authorisation of an additive and the permanent authorisation of an additive in feedingstuffs (O.J. No. L41, 13.2.2002, p. 6).

These Regulations – a modify the provisions of the principal Regulations which provide for the enforcement of the provisions of those Regulations which are made under the European Communities Act 1972 (regulation 5); b add three new Commission Regulations to the list of Commission Regulations under which authorisation for the marketing of feed additives has been granted which is contained in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 7 and Schedule 1); c modify the controls in the principal Regulations regulating the presence of undesirable substances in animal feed by specifying new maximum levels for Dioxin in feed (regulation 8 and Schedule 2); d modify the provisions of the principal Regulations regulating dietetic feeds as regards the required nutritional characteristics and labelling of feeds intended for the support of liver function in case of chronic liver insufficiency in dogs or cats (regulation 10 and Schedule 3); e make amendments to the principal Regulations to correct minor errors in them (regulations 4 and 9); and f make consequential amendments to those Regulations and to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999, and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2325) (regulations 6 and 11 to 13).