The Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made: 14th April 2011

Laid before Parliament: 20th April 2011

Coming into force: 16th May 2011

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Title and commencement

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Amendment of the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) Regulations 2003

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SCHEDULE

Signed

Jim Paice — Minister of State for Agriculture and Food — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 14th April 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, transpose Commission Directive 2009/106/EC amending Council Directive 2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products intended for human consumption (OJ No. L 212, 15.8.2009, p. 42).

Commission Directive 2009/106/EC makes two amendments to Council Directive 2001/112/EC (OJ No. L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 58). First, it makes a small linguistic change in relation to mixed juice products containing fruit juice and fruit juices from concentrate and to nectars obtained wholly or partly from one or more concentrated products, in order to alleviate translational difficulties across Member States of the EU. Second, it introduces a table laying down the minimum Brix levels for fruit juices from concentrate.

These Regulations amend the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1564) (“the 2003 Regulations”), so as to—

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• (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

These Regulations also require the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of the 2003 Regulations and publish a report within five years beginning on 16th May 2011 and within every five years after that (regulation 2(4)). Following a review it will fall to the Secretary of State to consider whether the 2003 Regulations should remain as they are, or be revoked or be amended. A further instrument would be needed to revoke the 2003 Regulations or to amend them.

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Food Policy Unit, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16. Sections 16 and 48 were amended by section 40(1) of, and paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 5 to, the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) (“the 1999 Act”). Section 48 was also amended by section 40(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 5 to, the 1999 Act and S.I. 2004/2990.

[^f00002]: Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being, in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act.

[^f00003]: OJ No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 (OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 14).

[^f00004]: S.I. 2003/1564; as amended by S.I. 2005/2626, 2009/3235 and 2009/3238.

[^f00005]: OJ No. L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 58, last amended by Commission Directive 2009/106/EC (OJ No. L 212, 15.8.2009, p. 42).

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Editorial notes

[^key-3d5dd99c249fec6f4817e8dd9a44b54d]: Instrument revoked (20.11.2013) by The Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2775), reg. 20(1)(b)