S.I. No. 60/1996:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEFINITION, DESCRIPTION AND PRESENTATION OF SPIRIT DRINKS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1996.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (DEFINITION, DESCRIPTION AND PRESENTATION OF SPIRIT DRINKS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1996.

I, IVAN YATES, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry 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 Commission Regulation No. 1267/94/EC of 1 June, 1994⁽¹⁾ hereby make the following Regulations:

⁽¹⁾O.J. No. L138,2-6-1994.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Definition, Description and Presentation of Spirit Drinks) (Amendment) Regulations, 1996.

2. The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Definition, Description and Presentation of Spirit Drinks) Regulations, 1995 and 1996, and shall be construed together as one.

3. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Definition, Description and Presentation of Spirit Drinks) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 300 of 1995 ).

4. The definition of "Council Regulation" in Regulation 2 (1) of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the insertion after "1990" of the words "and Commission Regulation No. 1267/94/EC of 1 June 1994".

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 5th day of March, 1996.

IVAN YATES,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide for the protection of the names used to describe certain spirit drinks produced in the United States of America.