Placing on the Market and Use of Animal Feed Rules, 2025

L.N. 36 of 2025

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Placing on the Market and Use of Animal Feed Rules, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 5, 10 and 23 to

28 of the Veterinary Services Act, the Minister responsible for

veterinary services with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for

finance and after consultation with the Minister responsible for public

health, the Director of Veterinary Services and the Head of the

National Veterinary Laboratory has made the following rules:-

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

and Use of Animal Feed Rules, 2025.

(2) The scope of these rules is to implement the requirements of

Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed,

amending European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/

2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission

Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC,

93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/

217/EC, as in force from time to time.

(1)

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Veterinary Services Act;

"competent authority" means the Department of Veterinary

Services;

"Director" means the Director of Veterinary Services; and

"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009" means Regulation (EC) No

767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13

July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending

European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/

2003 and repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission

Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/

EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission

Decision 2004/217/EC, as in force from time to time.

(2)

Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases

used in these rules which are not defined herein, shall have the same

meaning as assigned to them in Article 3 of the Regulation (EC) No

767/2009 and in article 2 of the Act.

Without prejudice to any other power or responsibility in Part IX of the

Act.

accordance with the law, and to its application in any other manner in

accordance with the law, Part IX of the Act shall also apply mutatis

mutandis to these rules.

(1) Without prejudice to rule 3, any person who breaches Offences,

punishments

the provisions of these rules or any obligation in accordance with these and

rules, or breaches a provision of Regulation (EC) No 767/2009, or administrative

penalties.

hinders any person responsible for their implementation, shall on

conviction, be liable to the punishments established in the Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-rule (1), the

Court may also order any person guilty of an offence, to pay for the

expenses incurred by the competent authority and the Director as a

result of the said offence, as well as the revocation of any permit or

certification issued under these rules and the confiscation, retention or

destruction or other disposal of the animals involved.

(1) The rules listed hereunder are hereby being repealed Repeal and

saving.

and substituted by these rules

(a) List of Intended Uses of Animal Feedingstuffs for S.L. 437.53.

Particular Nutritional Purposes Rules;

(b)

Products used in Animal Nutrition Rules;

(c) Categories of Feed Materials used for Labelling S.L. 437.62.

Compound Feedingstuffs for Animals other than Pet Animals

Rules;

(d) Feedingstuffs intended for Particular Nutritional S.L. 437.74.

Purposes Rules;

(e)

Circulation of Compound Feedingstuffs Rules;

(f)

Circulation and Use of Feed Materials Rules; and

(g) Use and Marketing of Enzymes, Micro-organisms S.L. 437.91.

and their Preparations in Animal Nutrition Rules.

(2) Any act, decision, omission or action taken before the

coming into force of these rules shall continue to be regulated by the

provisions of the regulations listed in sub-regulation (1), as in force

prior to the coming into force of these rules.

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