Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis), the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) and the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 1296 of 2003).

Subject: Fisheries, Livestock
Keyword: Internal trade Inspection Animal feed/feedstuffs
Geographical area: Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes: Coming into force on 9 June 2003.

Abstract: These Regulations: (a) amend the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 by: (i) inserting into regulation 1(2) a definition of the term "Directive 2002/70/EC; (ii) making regulation 3 applicable also to feed materials to be sampled pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC and removes the reference to paragraph 10 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Regulations; (iii) amending regulation 6 so that it now includes provisions which, when read with provisions added by the Regulations to Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations, specify the method of analysis to be used to determine whether dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are present or active in a sample of a feeding stuff or a feed material to be analysed pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC; (iv) modifying Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970 so as to provide that, in order to determine whether dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are present or active in a sample of a feeding stuff or a feed material to be analysed pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC (and if they are in what quantity or proportion), the sample is to be submitted to and analysed by a laboratory which satisfies specified requirements of that Directive; and making consequential modifications to Parts I and II of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations.
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