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Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. No. 382 of 1995).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Northern Ireland
Document type
Regulation
Date
1995
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Poultry products Food quality control/food safety Packaging/labelling
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations make provision for the enforcement and execution of specified Community Regulations which relate to marketing standards for shell eggs and to the production and marketing of eggs for hatching and of farmyard poultry chicks. They: (a) implement the public health conditions laid down by Council Decision 94/371/EC; (b) designate the authorities who are to enforce the Community provisions; (c) give certain authorised officers powers of entry inspection, sampling and direction for the purposes of enforcing those provisions; (d) give the Department of Agriculture power to require specified persons to keep records and supply information; (e) prescribe the form of the official mark which may be used under the Community provisions; (f) create offences and prescribe penalties; (g) provide that descriptions and marks applied in pursuance of a Community provision shall not be trade descriptions under the Trade Description Act 1968.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 762 (N.I. 7)).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1991 (2013)

Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Fraud, Inspection, Institution, Residues, Drugs, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repealed by

Eggs and Chicks Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. No. 98 of 2008).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2008

Keyword: Poultry products, Food quality control/food safety, Packaging/labelling, Classification/declassification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX