Title and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on the following dates:

(a)regulations 1 to 8(a) and 10 and Schedule 2 on 1st June 1996;

(b)regulations 8(b) and 9 and Schedule 1 on 31st July 1996.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995

2. The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995(6) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 -� 10 below.

3. In regulation 2(1), after the definition of "daily ration"there shall be inserted the following definitions -

""EEA Agreement" means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as amended by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

"EEA State" means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;(7)."

4. For regulation 10 there shall be substituted the following regulation:

"10. For the purposes of section 74, the limits of variation in relation to any mis-statement in a statutory statement or mark as to the nature, substance or quality of a feeding stuff, where the mis-statement relates to-

(a)an analytical constituent specified in the first column of any of Parts A to D of Schedule 3, or

(b)energy value of a feeding stuff specified in the first column of Part E of that Schedule,

shall be as set out with respect to that constituent or feeding stuff in the corresponding entry in the second column of the relevant Part of that Schedule.".

5. In regulation 15-

(a)in each of paragraphs (3), (4) and (6), for the words "a Member State of the European Community"there shall be substituted the words "an EEA State";

(b)for paragraph (11)(b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:

"(b)hide treated with tanning substances and its waste;";

(c)in paragraph (12), after the expression "Council Directive 75/442/EEC(8)" there shall be added the words "on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC"(8).

6. In regulation 22(1)(a), after the figure "70", there shall be inserted the figure "73,".

7. In Part C of Schedule 3 ("OTHER FEEDING STUFFS NOT COVERED BY PARTS A OR B"), for the provisions in the second column relating to the analytical constituent "Acid index" there shall be substituted the following provisions:

• "If present in excess-

• 1.5 for declarations of 15% or more

• 10% of the amount stated for declarations of 2% or more but less than 15%

• 0.2 for declarations less than 2%".

8. In Schedule 4-

(a)in Part II ("PERMITTED COLOURANTS")-

(i)for the provisions in Columns 1 to 3 relating to the names or descriptions "Carotenoids and xanthophylls" and "Capsanthin" there shall be substituted the following provisions:

(ii)for the provisions in Column 2 relating to item 3 there shall be substituted the following provisions:

• "All colourants (other than Patent Blue V and Acid Brilliant Green BS) at present permitted for use in human food by European Community legislation, as implemented by Regulations made under the Food Safety Act 1990(9);"

(b)in Part VI ("TRACE ELEMENTS"), for the provisions relating to the element Iodine-I there shall be substituted the contents of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

9. In the provisions relating to the substance Aflatoxin B1 in Chapter B in Part I of Schedule 5 ("FEEDING STUFFS"), for the provisions in columns 2 and 3 relating to complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except dairy animals, calves, lambs and kids) there shall be substituted the following provisions:

10. In Schedule 7 ("CONTROL OF CERTAIN PROTEIN SOURCES") -

(a)after the provisions relating to item 1.1.1. ("Bacteria cultivated on methanol") there shall be inserted the contents of Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(b)for the provisions in Column 5 relating to item 3.2.2 ("Concentrated liquid L-Lysine (base)") there shall be substituted the following provisions:

• "L-Lysine:

• min 50%".

Regulation 8(b)

SCHEDULE 1

Regulation 10(a)

SCHEDULE 2

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 ("the principal Regulations") and implement the following European Community Directives:

• Commission Directive 95/33/EC (OJ No. L167, 18.7.95, p.17) amending Council Directive 82/471/EEC concerning certain products used in animal nutrition;

• Commission Decision 95/274/EC (OJ No. L167, 18.7.95, p.24) amending Commission Decision 91/516/EEC establishing a list of ingredients whose use is prohibited in compound feeding stuffs;

• Commission Directive 96/6/EC (OJ No. L49, 28.2.96, p.29) amending Council Directive 74/63/EEC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition;

• Commission Directive 96/7/EC (OJ No. L51, 1.3.96, p.45) amending Council Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feeding stuffs.

The principal changes are contained in-

(a)regulation 5(a)- which modifies certain provisions in regulation 15 of the principal Regulations by providing that the requirements in those provisions currently regulating importation into Great Britain from countries other than Member States of the European Community of feeding stuffs and ingredients containing certain substances shall apply instead to their importation from any country not a signatory to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;

(b)regulation 5(b)- which modifies the prohibition in regulation 15(11)(b) of the principal Regulations on the use of treated hide in compound feeding stuffs;

(c)regulation 8(b)- which amends the entry in Part VI of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations relating to the additive Iodine;

(d)regulation 9- which amends the entry in Chapter B of Part I of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations relating to the substance Aflatoxin B1;

(e)regulation 10- which amends Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations by adding new provisions relating to Bacteria cultivated on natural gas and amending the entry relating to item 3.2.2- Concentrated liquid L- Lysine (base).

In addition the Regulations make minor drafting and textual amendments (regulations 4, 5(c), 6, 7 and 8(a)).