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The Food and Feed (Maximum Permitted Levels of Radioactive Contamination) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (Version in vigour from 2020-12-31 to )

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 6 Cited in Related
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Coming into Force31 December 2020
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Feed (Maximum Permitted Levels of Radioactive Contamination) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and come into force on exit day.
  • In these Regulations, “
  • Regulation 2016/52 is amended as follows.
  • In Article 1, omit the second paragraph.
  • In Article 2, at the end, insert—
    • (6) “appropriate authority” means—
    • (a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
    • (b) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
    • (c) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
    • (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    • in relation to England, the Secretary of State;in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .as regards F4England and Wales, the Food Standards Agency;as regards Scotland, Food Standards Scotland;“prescribe” means prescribe by regulations;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  • For Article 3, substitute—
    • If the appropriate authority receives — in particular under the IAEA Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident of 26 September 1986 — official information on a nuclear accident or on any other case of radiological emergency which is likely to lead to or has led to significant radioactive contamination of food and feed, the appropriate authority must, subject to paragraph 6, prescribe measures which apply the applicable maximum permitted levels to the potentially contaminated food or feed that could be placed on the market.If the Food Safety Authority receives official information of the kind described in paragraph 1, it must immediately notify the appropriate authority by sharing that official information with the appropriate authority.The maximum permitted levels applied by the measures prescribed under this Article must not exceed those set out in Annexes 1, 2 and 3.The period of validity of measures prescribed under this Article must be as short as possible. The duration of the first measures prescribed under this Article following a nuclear accident or any other case of radiological emergency must not exceed 3 months.The measures prescribed under this Article must be periodically reviewed by the appropriate authority and, if appropriate, amended on the basis of the nature and location of the accident and of the evolution of the level of radioactive contamination effectively measured.When preparing measures

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