Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005; they come into operation on 25th November 2005.

Amendment of the Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

2.  The Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(4) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

3.  In regulation 3 (amendment of definition of “Directive 2000/13/EC” in regulation 2(1) of the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(5) there shall be inserted at the end “which was itself amended by Commission Directive 2005/63/EC(6)”.

4.  In the Schedule, in the text of the new Schedule 2A to be inserted in the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 (list of ingredients which originate from allergenic ingredients and in respect of which the allergen labelling requirements do not apply) in column 2 for “Fish gelatine used as carrier for vitamins and flavours” there shall be substituted “Fish gelatine used as a carrier for vitamin or carotenoid preparations and flavours”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations amend the Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 which implement Commission Directive 2005/26/EC establishing a list of food ingredients or substances provisionally excluded from Annex IIIa of Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L75, 22.3.2005, p. 33). In accordance with the timetable in that Directive, those Regulations come into force on 25th November 2005. Those Regulations confer an exemption until 25th November 2007 from the allergen labelling requirements in regulation 34B of the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 in the case of certain ingredients originating from allergenic ingredients.

2.  These Regulations implement Commission Directive 2005/63/EC correcting Directive 2005/26/EC (OJ No. L258, 4.10.2005, p. 3).

3.  These Regulations—

(a)update the definition of “Directive 2000/13/EC” (Regulation 3);

(b)confer an exemption until 25th November 2007 from the allergen labelling requirements in regulation 34B of the 1996 Regulations in the case of fish gelatine used as a carrier for carotenoid preparations (regulation 4).

4.  A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.