European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 449/2016
• Year: 2016

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 16th August, 2016.

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) 2016/24 of 8 January 20161 , 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 2016.

(2) The Principal Regulations 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 and 2016.

2. In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means 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 ).

3. The Principal Regulations are amended—

(a) in Regulation 2(1), 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 20161;”,

(b) in Regulation 7—

(i) by substituting for paragraph (1)(i) the following:

“(i) food business operators shall ensure that—

(I) each consignment, and each individual bag or other form of packaging of the consignment, or

(II) in the case of a consignment in which packaging is combining several small packages or entities, the package combining these small packages or entities,

is identified with a code which corresponds to the identification code on the sampling and analysis results and the health certificate;”,

(ii) by substituting for paragraph (2) the following:

“(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to consignments of food—

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

(b) of a gross weight not exceeding 20kg.”, and

(iii) in paragraph (3), by substituting “paragraph (2)(a)” for “paragraph (2)”, and

(c) in Regulation 11, by inserting after paragraph (7) the following paragraph:

“(8) Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(j), (l), (m) and (p)...