Food Law News - UK - 2018

DEFRA Consultation, 1 November 2018

BREXIT - Draft Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Draft Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 This draft SI has been published by DEFRA. Comments are requied by 13 November when “sifting” is completed. An Explanatory Memorandum is aslo available. Copies of both are available on this site. Click on images.

The purpose of this instrument is to make deficiency amendments under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“the Withdrawal Act”) to EU-derived domestic legislation that implements and provides for the enforcement retained direct EU legislation, the Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and welfare rules (“the EC Regulation”). The amendments in this instrument enable the England-only statutory instrument to function immediately after EU exit.