The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

2.—(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, it must be possible to trace for inspection purposes the establishment of dispatch of consignments of fishery products, by means either of the labelling or of the accompanying documents. For that purpose, the following information must appear on the packaging or, in the case of a non-packaged product, in the accompanying documents—

• the country of dispatch, which may be written out in full or shown as an abbreviation, using capital letters, e.g. for the member States of the European Community, one of the following:

• B—DK—D—EL—E—F—IRL—I—L—NL—P—UK—AT—FI—SE;

• identification of—

  (i)

  the establishment or factory vessel by its official approval number,

  (ii)

  in the case of marketing from a freezer vessel covered by, as respects Great Britain, paragraph 7 of Part II of Schedule 4 or, as respects any other part of the European Economic Area, point 7 of Annex II to the Fishing Vessels Directive, the identification number of the vessel, or

  (iii)

  the registered wholesale or auction market by its registration number,

  from which the products were dispatched;

• one of the following abbreviations:

• CE—EC—EG—EK—EF—EY.

(2) All the letters and figures must be fully legible and grouped together on the packaging in a place where they are visible from the outside without any need to open the packaging.