1

If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that an operator has not complied with, or is not likely to comply with, a consumer information requirement or a traceability requirement, the officer may, by notice served on that operator (in this Order referred to as an “improvement notice”)—

a

state the officer's grounds for believing that the operator is failing to comply with those requirements;

b

specify the matters which constitute the operator's failure so to comply;

c

specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the operator must take in order to secure compliance; and

d

require the operator to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.

3

In this Article—

a

“consumer information requirement” and “traceability requirement” have the meanings given by regulation 3(1) of the Fish Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013;

b

“operator” has the meaning as in the EU Regulations as defined in regulation 2(1) and 2(2) of the Fish Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013.