European Union (Special Conditions Governing The Import Of Certain Food From Certain Third Countries Due To Contamination Risk By Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2019.

• Statutory Instrument No.: 335/2019
• Published date: 09 July 2019

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 9th July, 2019.

I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Health, 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 partial effect to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/890 of 27 May 20191 , hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries Due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2019.

(2) The Principal Regulations, the Regulations of 2016, the Regulations of 2017 and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries Due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) Regulations 2015 to 2019.

2. In these Regulations—

“Principal Regulations” means the European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries Due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 250 of 2015 );

“Regulations of 2016” means the European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 ( S.I. No. 449 of 2016 );

“Regulations of 2017” means the European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries Due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 ( S.I. No. 251 of 2017 ).

3. The Principal Regulations are amended—

(a) in Regulation 2(1) (as amended by Regulation 3(a) of the Regulations of 2017) by substituting for the definition of “EU Regulation 884/2014” the following:

“‘EU Regulation 884/2014’ means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 884/2014 of 13 August 20142 , as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/24 of 8 January 20163 , Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2106 of 1 December 20164 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/8901,”,

(b) in Regulation 7 (as amended by Regulation 3(b)(ii) of the Regulations of 2016), by substituting for paragraph (2) the following:

“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to consignments of food of a gross weight not exceeding 30 kg—

(a) which are destined to a private person for personal consumption and use only, or

(b)...