The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made: 25th January 2011

Laid before Parliament: 28th January 2011

Coming into force: 1st April 2011

As required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety[^f00005] there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of the following Regulations.

Title and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 1st April 2011.

Amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009

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• (1) The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009[^f00006] are amended in accordance with the following paragraph.

• (2) In regulation 12 (right of appeal), omit paragraphs (5) to (7).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Anne Milton — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 25th January 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

1 These Regulations (at regulation 2) amend The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3255) by omitting paragraphs (5) to (7) of regulation 12 of those Regulations.

2 Those paragraphs made provision for a food business operator who has appealed against the refusal or withdrawal of an authorisation of a food business establishment to continue to operate the establishment pending the outcome of that appeal.

3 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 Enforcement and Local Authority Delivery Division of the Food Standards Agency, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c.68.

[^f00005]: OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).

[^f00006]: S.I. 2009/3255, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.