The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001
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In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1)(a), 17(1), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990 [1], and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales[2]) the National Assembly for Wales, having had regard, in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency, and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B) of that Act, makes the following Regulations: Title, commencement, and application 1. - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001. (2) These Regulations apply to Wales only and come into force on 1st June 2001. Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 2. The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995[3]) shall be amended in so far as they apply to Wales, in accordance with Regulations 3 to 5 below. 3. In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of "Directive 96/77/EC" there shall be added at the end the words "and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC"[4]). 4. In regulation 11 (transitional provision and exemptions) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1B) the following paragraph -
(b) the matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 5 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 had not been made when that matter occurred.". 5. In Schedule 5 (purity
criteria) the entries relating to the miscellaneous additives listed in
the Schedule to these Regulations shall be
omitted.
the Specified Sugar Products Regulations 1976[8]) the Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations 1976[9]) the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations 1977[10]) the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations 1977 [11] the Jam and Similar Products Regulations 1981[12]) the Meat Products and Spreadable Fish Products Regulations 1984[13]) the Food Additives Labelling Regulations 1992[14]) the Food Labelling Regulations 1996[15])
E 296Malic acid E 297Fumaric acid E 350(i)Sodium malate E 350(ii)Sodium hydrogen malate E 351Potassium malate E 352(i)Calcium malate E 352(ii)Calcium hydrogen malate E 355Adipic acid E 363Succinic acid E 380Triammonium citrate E 500(i)Sodium carbonate E 500(ii)Sodium hydrogen carbonate E 500(iii)Sodium sesquicarbonate E 501(i)Potassium carbonate E 501(ii)Potassium hydrogen carbonate E 503(i)Ammonium carbonate E 503(ii)Ammonium hydrogen carbonate E 507Hydrochloric acid E 509Calcium chloride E 513Sulphuric acid E 514(i)Sodium sulphate E 515(i)Potassium sulphate E 516Calcium sulphate E 522Aluminium potassium sulphate E 524Sodium hydroxide E 525Potassium hydroxide E 526Calcium hydroxide E 527Ammonium hydroxide E 528Magnesium hydroxide E 529Calcium oxide E 530Magnesium oxide E 535Sodium ferrocyanide E 536Potassium ferrocyanide E 541Sodium aluminium phosphate, acidic E 551Silicon dioxide E 552Calcium silicate E 553a(i)Magnesium silicate E 553a(ii)Magnesium trisilicate E 575Glucono-delta-lactone E 576Sodium gluconate E 577Potassium gluconate E 578Calcium gluconate E 640Glycine E 900Dimethylpolysiloxane E 901Beeswax, white and yellow E 903Carnauba wax E 904Shellac E 941Nitrogen E 942Nitrous oxide E 948Oxygen E 999Extract of quillaia E 1200Polydextrose Propane-1, 2-diol (propylene glycol) (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations, which apply to Wales only, amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995, as amended ("the principal Regulations"). The Regulations implement Commission Directive 2000/63/EC amending Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (OJ No. L277, 30.10.2000, p.1). Subject to a transitional provision, the Regulations amend the existing requirements in the principal Regulations as regards the purity criteria for butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and specify new purity criteria in relation to the additives specified in Annex II to Commission Directive 2000/63/EC (regulations 3 to 5). The Regulations also make consequential amendments to the instruments specified in regulation 4, as regards references in those instruments to the principal Regulations (regulation 6). No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. Notes: [1] 1990 c. 16; section 6(4)(a) of the Act was amended by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), Schedule 9, paragraph 6 and by the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28), Schedule 5, paragraph 10(3). Functions formerly exercisable by "the Ministers" are now exercisable, in relation to England, by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999; functions formerly exercisable by "the Ministers", so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to "the Scottish Ministers" by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). Regulation 13(4) of S.I. 2000/656 expressly authorises the Secretary of State to amend existing Regulations made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (whether with others or not) under the Food Safety Act 1990.back [2] The National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/672).back [3] SI 1995/3187, amended by SI 1997/1413 and SI 1999/1136.back [4] OJ No. L277, 30.10.2000, p. 1.back [7] S.I. 1966/1073; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [8] S.I. 1976/509; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [9] S.I. 1976/541; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [10] S.I. 1977/927; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [11] S.I. 1977/928; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [12] S.I. 1981/1063; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [13] S.I. 1984/1566; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [14] S.I. 1992/1978; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3187.back [15] S.I. 1996/1499 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back
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