intended for Human Consumption

L.N. 83 of 2006

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Food Hygiene and Health Conditions for the Production and

Placing on the Market of Certain Products of Animal Origin

intended for Human Consumption

(Amendments and Repeals) Rules, 2006

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Veterinary

Services Act, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment has

made the following rules>

l. The title of these rules is the Food Hygiene and Health

Conditions for the Production and Placing on the Market of Certain

Products of Animal Origin intended for Human Consumption

(Amendments and Repeals) Rules, 2006.

It-titolu ta’ dawn ir-regoli hu Regoli ta’ l-2006 dwar l-I;jene Titolu u skop.

ta’ l-Ikel u Kundizzjonijiet tas-Sa[[a g[all-Produzzjoni u t-Tqeg[id

fis-Suq ta’ ?ertu Prodotti li jori;inaw mill-Annimali u inti]i g[all-

Konsum mill-Bniedem (Emendi u T[assir).

(1) The scope of these rules is to transpose the provisions

found in Directive 2004#41#EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 21 April 2004 repealing certain directives concerning food

hygiene and health conditions for the production and placing on the

market of certain products of animal origin intended for human

consumption, and amending Council Directives 89#662#EEC and

92#118#EEC and Council Decision 95#408#EC, hereinafter referred to

as “the Directive”.

(2) The said Directive 89#662#EEC applies only insofar as

it has been transposed into the Veterinary Checks Applicable in Intra-

Community Trade with Member States in Animal Products Regulations,

2003.

The Veterinary Checks Applicable in Intra-Community Trade

Amends L.N. 354 of

2003. with Member States in Animal Products Regulations, 2003 shall be

amended as follows>

(a) in sub-regulation (3) of regulation 1 thereof, for the

words “products of animal origin which are covered by the

European Union Directives listed in the first schedule”, there shall

be substituted the words “products of animal origin which are

covered by the Directives listed in Schedule A”<

(b) in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 4,

for the words “products obtained in accordance with the legislation

referred to in Schedule A”, there shall be substituted the words

“products of animal origin covered by the acts referred to in

Schedule A”< and

(c) for Schedule A thereof, there shall be substituted the

following>

“SCHEDULE A

CHAPTER I

(a) Animal Health (Production, Processing, Distribution and

Introduction of Products for Human Consumption) Rules, 2005

(L.N. 145 of 2005).

(b) Regulation (EC) No 853#2004 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 29 th April, 2004 laying down

specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin.

CHAPTER II

(a) Council Directive 92#118#EEC of the 17 th December,

1992 laying down animal health and public health requirements

governing trade in and imports into the Community of products

not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific

Community rules referred to in Annex A, Chapter I to Directive

89#662#EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90#425#EEC.

(b) Regulation (EC) No 1774#2002 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of the 3 rd October, 2002 laying down

health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human

consumption.”.

The animal health rules laid down in the Health and Veterinary Applicability of

Inspection Problems upon Importation of Bovine Animals, Swine and L.N. 69 of 2005.

Fresh Meat from Third Countries Rules, 2005 shall continue to apply

only to the importation of live animals.

The following regulations are hereby being repealed>-

Repeal of various

regulations.

(a) Fresh Meat (Bovine, Swine, Sheep, Goats and Domestic

Solipeds) for Human Consumption Regulations, 2004 (L.N. 120

of 2004)<

(b) Health Problems affecting the Production and Placing

on the Market of Fresh Poultry-Meat Regulations, 2004 (L.N. 258

of 2004)<

(c) Animal Health Conditions Governing Intra-Community

Trade in Ovine and Caprine Animals Rules, 2004 (L.N. 509 of

2004)<

(d) Examination of Trichinae (Trichinella Spiralis) upon

Importation from Third Countries of Fresh Meat derived from

Domestic Swine Rules, 2005 (L.N. 253 of 2005)<

(e) Health Problems Affecting the Production and Marketing

of Meat Products and Certain Other Products of Animal Origin

Regulations, 2004 (L.N. 119 of 2004)<

(f) Animal Health Conditions Governing Intra-Community

Trade and Imports from Third Countries of Fresh Poultry Meat

Regulations, 2004 (L.N. 468 of 2004)<

(g) Public and Animal Health Problems affecting the

Production and Placing on the Market of Rabbit Meat and Farmed

Game Meat Rules, 2004 (L.N. 503 of 2004)<

(h) Public and Animal health Problems relating to the

Killing and the Placing on the Market of Wild Game Meat Rules,

2004 (L.N. 504 of 2004)<

(i) Health Rules for the Production and Placing on the

Market of Raw Milk, Heat-Treated Milk and Milk-Based Products

Regulations, 2004 (L.N. 130 of 2004)< and

(j) Requirements for the Production and Placing on the

Market of Minced Meat and Meat Preparations Regulations, 2004

(L.N. 118 of 2004).

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