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Statutory Instrument
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S.I. No.
343 of 2001
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European Communities (Purity Criteria
on Food Additives other than Colours and Sweeteners ) (Amendment)
Regulations, 2001
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Dublin
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Published
by the Stationery Office
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S.I. No. 343 of 2001
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European Communities (Purity Criteria
on Food Additives other than Colours and Sweeteners) (Amendment)
Regulations, 2001
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I, Micheál Martin,
Minister for Health and Children, in exercise of the powers conferred on me
by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 ( No 27 of 1972 ), and
for the purpose of giving further effect to Commission Directive 96/77/EC1
of 2 December 1996 laying down specific
purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners, as
amended by Commission Directive 98/86/EC2 of 11 November 1998 and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC3
of 5 October 2000, hereby make the
following Regulations :
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1. (1) These
Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Purity Criteria on
Food Additives other than Colours and Sweeteners) (Amendment) Regulations,
2001.
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(2) The European
Communities (Purity Criteria on Food Additives other than Colours and
Sweeteners) Regulations, 1998 and 2000 and these Regulations may be cited
together as the European Communities (Purity Criteria on Food Additives
other than Colours and Sweeteners) Regulations, 1998 to 2001.
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2. In these
Regulations, “the Principal Regulations” means the European Communities
(Purity Criteria on Food Additives other than Colours and Sweeteners)
Regulations, 1998 ( S.I. No. 541 of 1998 ).
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3. The
Principal Regulations are hereby amended by:
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(1) in Regulation
2(1),
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by the substitution for the definition of “the Commission Directive”
of the following: “‘the Commission Directive’ means Commission Directive
96/77/EC2 of 2 December
1996, as amended by Commission Directive 98/86/EC4 of 11 November 1998 and Commission Directive
2000/63/EC5 of 5 October
2000”, and by the addition of the following footnotes thereto :
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(2) by the
substitution for Regulation 3 of the following:
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“3 Products
put on the market or labelled before March 31st, 2001 which do
not comply with Commission Directive 2000/63/EC of 5 October 2000 may be
marketed until stocks are exhausted and these Regulations shall not apply to
such stocks.”
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GIVEN under my official seal this 24th day of
July, 2001
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Micheál
Martin,
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Minister for Health and Children
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Explanatory Note
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(This note is not part of the
Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).
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These Regulations amend the European
Communities (Purity Criteria on Food Additives other than Colours and
Sweeteners) Regulations, 1998 ( S.I. No. 541 of 1998 ) and may be cited as
the European Communities (Purity Criteria on Food Additives other than
Colours and Sweeteners) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001.
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These Regulations implement Commission
Directive 2000/63/EC which amends Commission Directive 96/77/EC laying down
specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweetners as set out in Council Directive 95/2/EC.
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This S.I. replaces the purity criteria
already laid down for E320 — butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) - and
establishes new purity criteria for some categories of additives listed in
Council Directive 95/2/EC as an addition to those purity criteria already
established in the Annex to Commission Directive 96/77/EC and Directive
98/86/EC.
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1 OJ.
No. L339, 30.12.1996 p.1
2 OJ
No. L 334, 9.12.1998 p.1
3 OJ
No. L277, 30.10.2000, p.1
2 OJ
No. L334, 9.12.1998 p.1
“4 OJ. No. L334,
9.12.1998, p.1
5 OJ. No. L277,
30.10.2000, p.1”
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