The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009 No. 446

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 3 DEFINITION OF RELEVANT FOOD LAW

• “relevant food law” means—

  (a)

  food law in so far as it applies in relation to food, except in so far as it involves—

  (i)

  the regulation of residues of veterinary medicines and other substances under the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations 1997 M1 ,

  (ii)

  the regulation of residues of pesticides under the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 M2 ,

  (iii)

  F1 ...

  (iv)

  [F2 the application of the rules on quality schemes which provide the basis for the identification and protection of names and terms that indicate or describe agricultural products with value-adding characteristics laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs],

  (v)

  the regulation of organic products under the Organic Products Regulations 2009 M3 ,

  (vi)

  the regulation of beef and veal labelling under the Beef and Veal Labelling (Scotland) Regulations 2008 M4 ,

  (vii)

  [F3 the regulation of the import of and trade in products of animal origin under the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012, with the exception of the execution and enforcement under regulation 27 of those Regulations by the Agency;]

  (viii)

  the matters regulated under Schedule 2 to [F4 the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2010] in so far as that Schedule applies in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption, together with the matters covered under point 2 of Part I and point 2 of Part II of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation 999/2001 as read with Commission Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes M5 in so far as those points apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption; and

  (ix)

  the regulation of spirit drinks under the Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008 M6 .

  (b)

  food law in so far as it applies in relation to materials and articles in contact with food; and

  (c)

  food law in so far as it involves the regulation of primary production and those associated operations, listed in point 1 of Part AI of Annex I to Regulation 852/2004, under the Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 para. (a)(iii) omitted (1.1.2019) by The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 27(2)(a)

F2 Sch. 3 para. (a)(iv) substituted (1.1.2019) by The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 27(2)(b)

F3 Sch. 3 para. (a)(vii) substituted (1.7.2012) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/177), reg. 1(b), sch. 4 para. 3 (with reg. 3)

F4 Words in sch. 3 substituted (28.5.2010) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/177), reg. 1(1), sch. 9 para. 9

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1997/1729, amended by S.I. 2001/3590 2004/147, 2006/755, 2009/1925 and S.S.I. 2005/616.

M2 S.S.I. 2008/342.

M3 S.I. 2009/842.

M4 S.S.I. 2008/418.

M5 O.J. No. L 256, 29.9.2009, p.35.

M6 S.I. 2008/3206.