Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend provisions of the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. 1998 No. 237) that give effect to Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists, and repealing Directive 81/602/EEC, Directive 88/146/EEC and Directive 88/299/EEC (OJ No. L125, 23.5.1996, p. 3).

Regulation 3 amends the Animal and Animal Products (Examination of Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 as follows:-

(a) regulations (4)(a)(i), (5)-(7), (9)-(10) and (15)-(19) transpose Directive 2003/74/EC (OJ No. L262, 14.10.2003, p.17) by amending regulations 2-5, 8-9, 24-28 and inserting a new regulation 28A.

(b) regulations (4)(a)(ii)-(iv) and (b), (8)(c), (14)(a) and (20)(b) update references to Community and domestic legislation by amending regulations 2,6,23 and 32.

(c) regulations (8)(a) and (b), (14)(b), (20)(a) and (c) and (21) remove provisions duplicated in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2745) by amending regulations 6, 23 and 32 and revoking regulation 33.

(d) regulation (11) clarifies upon whom an authorised officer may serve a notice specifying the results of a sample analysed by amending regulation 15.

(e) regulation (12) transposes Commission Decision 2002/657 implementing Council Directive 96/23/EC concerning the performance of analytical methods and the interpretation of results (OJ No. L221, 17.8.2002, p. 8) by amending regulation 18.