The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a), (b) and (f), 16(3), 17(1) and (2), 26(1), (2)(a) and (b) and (3), 30(9), 31(1) and (2)(c), (d), (e), (f) and (h), 45(1) and (2) and 48(1) of, and paragraphs 3(1)(b) and 7 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf; the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community and in relation to medicinal products, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf; after consultation in accordance with the said section 48 of the Act of 1990 with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations (in so far as the Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said sections of the said Act of 1990), hereby make the following Regulations—