The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2253 (W.163)

AGRICULTURE, WALES

The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Made

14th June 2001

Coming into force

1st August 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 77(4), 78(6) and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970M1 (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000M2 ) and now vested in the National Assembly for WalesM3 , after consultation as required by section 84(1) of that Act with the persons or organisations appearing to represent the interests concerned, and being designatedM4 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972M5 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:

Marginal Citations

M1 1970 c.40. The definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No.1) Order 1978 (SI 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1.

M2 SI 2000/656.

M3 By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (SI 1999/672), functions of “the Ministers” are now exercisable in Wales by the National Assembly for Wales.

M4 SI 1999/2788.

M5 1972 c.68.

Title, commencement and extent E+W

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st August 2001.

(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 E+W

2.  The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 M6 shall be amended in relation to Wales in accordance with regulations 3 and 4 below.

Marginal Citations

M6 SI 1999/1663; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

3.  In regulation 6 —

(a) in paragraph (1), after the words “pursuant to the Act,” there shall be added the words “ or, in the cases of the substances vitamin A and vitamin E, in a sample of a premixture to be analysed pursuant to Commission Directive 2000/45/EC establishing Community methods of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, vitamin E and tryptophan in feedingstuffs, ”M7 ; and

(b) in paragraph (2) subparagraph (c) shall be deleted.

Marginal Citations

M7 OJ No. L174, 13.7.2000, p.32.

4.  Annex 1 to Part II of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows—

(a) after the entry for Theobromine there shall be added in columns 1 to 3 the following entry:

“Tryptophan

Part C of the Annex to Directive 2000/45/EC

OJ No. L174, 13.7.2000,”

(b) for the provisions in columns 2 and 3 relating to the entry for Vitamin A there shall be substituted the following provisions:

“Part A of the Annex to Directive 2000/45/EC

OJ No. L174, 13.7.2000, p.32.”

and

(c) after the entry for Vitamin A there shall be added in columns 1 to 3 the following entry:

“Vitamin E

Part B of the Annex to Directive 2000/45/EC

OJ No. L174, 13.7.2000, p.32.”

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 E+W

5.  In the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 M8 , regulation 26, paragraph (b) of regulation 27 and subparagraph (d)(i) of that regulation shall be omitted.

Marginal Citations

M8 SI 2001/343(W.15).

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 E+W

F1 6.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 6-8 revoked (1.1.2006) by The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3368), reg. 1, Sch. 2

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 E+W

F1 7.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 6-8 revoked (1.1.2006) by The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3368), reg. 1, Sch. 2

F1 8.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 6-8 revoked (1.1.2006) by The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3368), reg. 1, Sch. 2

M9 Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 .

D.Elis Thomas

The Presiding Office of the National Assembly

Marginal Citations

M9 1998 c.38.

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations, which apply to Wales only, amend the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 and implement Commission Directive 2000/45/EC establishing Community methods of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, vitamin E and tryptophan in feedingstuffs (OJ No. L174, 13.7.2000, p.32). E+W

2.  The Regulations— E+W

(a)  amend the 1999 Regulations by prescribing a revised method of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, and new methods for the determination of vitamin E and tryptophan, in feeding stuffs and, in the cases of vitamins A and E, in premixtures (regulation 4), and E+W

(b)  make minor and consequential amendments to those Regulations, the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 (regulations 3 and 5 - 8). E+W

3.  A regulatory appraisal for these Regulations has been prepared pursuant to section 65 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 and placed in the library of the National Assembly for Wales. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency, 1st Floor, Southgate House, Cardiff CF10 1EN. E+W