S.I. No. 102/1988:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (COFFEE EXTRACTS AND CHICORY EXTRACTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1988.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (COFFEE EXTRACTS AND CHICORY EXTRACTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1988.

I, MICHAEL O'KENNEDY, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 85/573/EEC of 19 December 1985⁽¹⁾, hereby make the following regulations:

⁽¹⁾ O.J. No. L372 of 31.12.1985, p.22.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts) (Amendment) Regulations, 1988.

2. The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts) Regulations, 1982 and 1988, and shall be construed together as one.

3. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts) Regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 295 of 1982 ).

4. References in the Principal Regulations to Council Directive 77/436/EEC of 27 June 1977⁽²⁾, shall be construed as reference to that Directive as amended by Council Directive 85/573/EEC of 19 December 1985⁽¹⁾

⁽²⁾ O.J. No. L172 of 12.7.1977, p.20.

⁽¹⁾ O.J. No. L372 of 31.12.1985, p.22.

5. Regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (1) of the following paragraph:

"(1) Products in solid or in paste form referred to in Article 1 of the Council Directive, when put up in individual packages of a nominal-weight of more than 25g but not exceeding 10 kg, shall be offered for retail sale in packages of the following nominal weights only: 50g, 100g, 200g, 250g (for mixtures of coffee and chicory extracts only and for coffee extracts intended exclusively for use in automatic vending machines), 300g (for coffee extracts only), 500g, 750g, 1kg, 1.5kg, 2kg, 2.5kg, 3kg and multiples of a kilogram".

6. Regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations is hereby revoked.

7. Regulation 12 (1) of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the deletion of ", 10".

8. (1) Trade in any product which does not comply with the Council Directive is hereby prohibited from the 1st day of July, 1988.

(2) A person who contravenes this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of May, 1988.

MICHAEL O'KENNEDY,

Minister for Agriculture and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of these Regulations is to amend the European Communities (Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts) Regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 295 of 1982 ) to give legal effect to Directive 85/573/EEC amending Directive 77/436/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to coffee extracts and chicory extracts. From the 1 July, 1988 the sale of coffee extracts and chicory extracts which do not conform with the provisions of the Directives is prohibited.