Control of Feed Rules, 2025

L.N. 37 of 2025

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Methods of Sampling and Analysis for the Official

Control of Feed Rules, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 5, 10 and 25

of the Veterinary Services Act, the Minister responsible for veterinary

services after consultation with the Minister responsible for public

health, has made the following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Methods of Sampling

and Analysis for the Official Control of Feed Rules, 2025.

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

of Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 of 27 January 2009

laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official

control of feed, as in force from time to time.

(1)

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Veterinary Services Act;

"Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009" means

Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 of 27 January 2009

laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the

official control of feed, as in force from time to time

Provided that in these rules "Commission Regulation (EC)

No 152/2009" shall also include all the delegated or

implementing acts as adopted by the European Union according

to Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009, as applicable on a

case-by-case basis";

"competent authority" means the Department as defined in

the Act; and

"Official Controls Regulation" means Regulation (EU)

2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15

March 2017 on official controls and other official activities

performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules

on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection

products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No

396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No

1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/

2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council

Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and

Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/

119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No

854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and

of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC,

90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC

and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls

Regulation), as in force from time to time

Provided that in these rules, "Official Control

Regulations" shall also include all the delegated or implementing

acts as adopted by the European Union according to the Official

Controls Regulation, as applicable on a case-by-case basis.

(2)

Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases

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

same meaning as assigned to them in Article 3 of the Official Controls

Regulation and in article 2 of the Act.

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

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

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 and

the provisions of these rules or any obligation in accordance with punishments.

these rules, or breaches a provision of Commission Regulation (EC)

No 152/2009, or 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

certificate issued under these rules and the confiscation, retention or

destruction or other means of disposal of the animals involved.

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

saving.

and substituted by these rules

(a) Requirements for the Determination of Levels of S.L. 437.54.

Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Feedingstuffs Rules;

(b) Analytical Method for the Determination of S.L. 437.55.

Constituents of Animal Origin for the Official Control of

Feedingstuffs Rules;

(c) Methods for Analysis in the Official Control of

Feedingstuffs Rules;

(d) Methods of Analysis for the Official Control of

Feedingstuffs Rules;

(e) Methods of Analysis for the Official Control of

Feeding-Stuffs Rules;

(f) Community Methods for the Analysis and Official

Control of Feedingstuffs Rules;

(g) Methods of Analysis for the Official Control of

Feedingstuffs Rules; and

(h) Analysis of Chemical Levels in the Control of

Feedingstuffs 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 rules listed in sub-rule (1), as in force prior to the

coming into force of these rules.

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