European Union (Special Conditions Governing the Import of Certain Food from Certain Third Countries Due to Contamination Risk by Aflatoxins) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 251/2017
• Year: 2017

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 16th June, 2017.

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) 2016/2106 of 1 December 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 2017.

(2) The Principal Regulations, the Regulations of 2016 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 2017.

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 ).

3. The Principal Regulations are amended—

(a) in Regulation 2(1) (as amended by Regulation 3(a) of the Regulations of 2016)—

(i) 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 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2106 of 1 December 20161;”, and

(ii) by substituting for subparagraph (c) of the definition of “consignment” the following:

“(c) compound food containing any of the food referred to in Article 1(1) of, and Annex I to, EU Regulation 884/2014 in a quantity above 20 per cent of either a single product or as the sum of products referred to in that Article and Annex,”, and

(b) in Regulation 11 (as amended by Regulation 3(c) of the Regulations of 2016), by inserting after paragraph (8) the following paragraph:

“(9) Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(j), (l), (m) and (p), a person who imports a consignment of food referred to in Article 1(1)(l), (m)...