Medicated Feed Rules, 2024

L.N. 266 of 2024

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Manufacture, Placing on the Market and Use of

Medicated Feed Rules, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 26 and 27 of

the Veterinary Services Act, the Minister responsible for veterinary

services, following consultation with the Head of the National

Veterinary Laboratory, has made the following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Manufacture, Placing on

the Market and Use of Medicated Feed Rules, 2024.

commencement.

(2) These rules implement the requirements of Regulation

(EU) 2019/4 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11

December 2018 on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of

medicated feed, amending Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 of the

European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council

Directive 90/167/EEC and also regulate other matters which are

incidential to the subject matter thereof.

(3) These rules shall come into force within two (2) months

from their publication in the Gazette.

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Veterinary Services Act;

"animal keeper" means any natural or legal person

responsible for animals on a permanent or on a temporary basis;

"Director" shall have the same meaning as assigned to in

the Act;

"operators" means feed business operators or on-farm

mixers as defined in Regulation (EU) 2019/4;

"Regulation (EU) 2019/4" means Regulation (EU) 2019/4

of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December

2018 on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of

medicated feed, amending Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 of the

European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council

Directive 90/167/EEC.

The Director may request the operators and animal keepers

to provide any information relating to the importation, export, intra-

trade, sale, use, administration and disposal of any type of medicated

feed or its intermediate products.

(1) The operators and animal keepers shall dispose of all System of

the unused or expired medicated feed and, or all unused intermediate disposal

unused or

products in accordance with the guidelines as may be issued by the expired

medicated feed.

Director.

(2) The operators and animal keepers shall keep receipts of

destruction of the medicated feed and intermediate products for a

period of five (5) years and such receipts shall be made available to the

Director upon request.

(1) The quantity of medicated feed referred to in item 9 Veterinary

of Annex V of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 shall be sub-divided in the prescription

medicated feed.

veterinary prescription for medicated feed into quantity prescribed for

production and quantity supplied for use.

(2) The prescribing of medicated feed shall be made only on

prescription for medicated feed provided by the Director in line with

Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2019/4.

(3) The veterinary prescription for medicated feed shall remain

valid as a printed copy for a period of time as determined by the

Director who may decide that it shall be substituted by an electronic

version, and in such case Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 and

sub-rule (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(4) An electronic veterinary prescription for medicated feed

shall be established by the Director for the purposes of this rule.

Establishments for the purposes of manufacture, storage, Applications.

transport or placing on the market of medicated feed or intermediate

products shall submit an application in the form prescribed by the

Director before the activity takes place.

Operators shall provide a list of medicated feed they List of

manufacture and, or distribute to the Director in January of each year. medicated feed.

Any changes in the list shall be notified to the Director without delay.

(1) Decisions of the Director in terms of these rules shall Right to appeal.

be subject to a right of appeal before the Administrative Review

Tribunal established by article 5(1) of the Administrative Justice Act. Cap. 490.

(2) An appeal in terms of this rule shall be filed within twenty

(20) days from the service of the Director’s decision

Provided that the Director’s decision shall become

immediately applicable and enforceable and shall remain applicable

throughout the term of appeal until final judgment by the

Administrative Review Tribunal and shall remain applicable unless it

is reversed by the Tribunal or withdrawn by the Director.

Any person who contravenes or acts in violation of the

provisions of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 and these rules, shall be guilty

of an offence and shall be liable on conviction, to a fine (multa) of not

less than one thousand euro (€1,000) and not more than five thousand

euro (€5,000), or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2)

months, or to both such fine and imprisonment

Provided that the Director shall not be precluded from

proceeding in accordance with the provisions of article 61 of the Act.

The Conditions governing the Preparation, Placing on the

Market and Use of Medicated Feeding stuffs Rules is hereby repealed

without prejudice to anything done or omitted to be done thereunder.

Immediately after the last item of the Second Schedule to

the Administrative Justice Act, there shall be added the following new

item

"Manufacture, Placing

on the Market and Use of

Inferior Competence".

Medicated Feed Rules

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