Amendment of the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1989

5.—(1) The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1989(1) shall have effect subject to the following amendments.

(2) In regulation 2(1)—

(a)for the definition of “milk” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““milk” means cows' raw milk, cows' standardised whole milk and cows' non-standardised whole milk and “standardised whole milk” and “non-standardised whole milk” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by Council Regulation (EEC) No.1411/71 as amended;”;

(b)for the definition of “raw milk” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““raw milk” means whole milk which has not been treated by heat;”.

(3) In Schedule 6—

(a)in paragraph 2(1) after the words “The name of the milk shall be “Milk”” there shall be inserted the words “, or “Whole Milk””;

(b)in paragraph 2(2) after the words “word “Milk”” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, the words “Whole Milk””;

(c)after paragraph 2(2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3) The name shall in addition comply with the labelling requirements of Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1411/71 as amended”.