S.I. No. 106/2024 - European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024.

(2) The collective citation “the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) Regulations 2020 and 2024” includes these Regulations.

2. In these Regulations—

“Principal Regulations” means the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) (

S.I. No. 79 of 2020

);

“Regulations of 2024” means the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (

S.I. No. 9 of 2024

).

3. Regulation 13(2)(a) of the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting “close and seal” for “seal and fasten”.

4. Regulation 14(2) (as amended by Regulation 7(a) of the Regulations of 2024) of the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting for subparagraph (a) the following

“(a) in the presence of the operator, or the person in apparent charge or control of the relevant thing, mark, close and seal each relevant thing, copy or photograph, in such a manner as its nature will permit, and in such a way that the integrity of the sample is not compromised,”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

25 March, 2024.

STEPHEN DONNELLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

)

These Regulations give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities.

These Regulations amend the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 79 of 2020

) in the manner specified in these Regulations.

These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Official Controls in relation to Food Legislation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024.

1 OJ No. L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1, as affected by Corrigendum of 7 April 2017 (OJ No. L 137, 24.5.2017, p. 40).

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th March,

2024.

I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, 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 further effect to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017

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, hereby make the following regulations