Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1999 No. 287
AGRICULTURE
Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
Made
24th June 1999
Coming into operation
29th July 1999
The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 66(1), 74A, 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and being a Department designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 with such persons or organisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, and shall come into operation on 29th July 1999.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(4) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
2. The Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(5) shall be further amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.
3. In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—
(a)after the definition of “daily ration” there shall be inserted the following definitions—
““EC approved Article 2.2(d) establishment” means an establishment listed on a register of approved establishments, maintained by a competent authority in a Member State, in implementation of Article 5 of the Establishments Directive, as an establishment on which a compound feeding stuff, of any kind the manufacture of which is regulated by Article 2.2(d) of that Directive, may be manufactured with a view to putting it into circulation;
“EC approved Article 2.2(f) establishment” means an establishment listed on a register of approved establishments, maintained by a competent authority in a Member State, in implementation of Article 5 of the Establishments Directive, as an establishment on which a compound feeding stuff, of any kind the production of which is regulated by Article 2.2(f) of that Directive, may be produced for the exclusive requirements of the producer’s holding;
“EC permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment” means an establishment located in a Member State (other than an EC approved Article 2.2(d) establishment or an establishment which a competent authority in the Member State has declined to approve as such an establishment) if—
(a)
a compound feeding stuff, of any kind the manufacture of which is regulated by Article 2.2(d) of the Establishments Directive, was being manufactured on the establishment, with a view to putting it into circulation, on 1st April 1998, and
(b)
before 1st September 1998, an application (which is pending) in respect of the establishment, was made to a competent authority in the Member State, in accordance with any requirements in the Member State for the making of such applications, to approve the establishment, pursuant to the Establishments Directive, as an establishment on which a compound feeding stuff of any such kind may be manufactured with a view to putting it into circulation;
“EC permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment” means an establishment located in a Member State (other than an EC approved Article 2.2(f) establishment or an establishment which a competent authority in the Member State has declined to approve as such an establishment) if—
(a)
a compound feeding stuff, of any kind the manufacture of which is regulated by Article 2.2(f) of the Establishments Directive, was being produced on the establishment, for the exclusive requirements of the producer’s holding, on 1st April 1998, and
(b)
before 1st September 1998, an application (which is pending) in respect of the establishment, was made to a competent authority in the Member State, in accordance with any requirements in the Member State for the making of such applications, to approve the establishment, pursuant to the Establishments Directive, as an establishment on which a compound feeding stuff of any such kind may be produced for the exclusive requirements of the producer’s holding;”;
(b)after the definition of “energy value” there shall be inserted the following definitions—
““establishment” has the meaning given by Article 1.3 of the Establishments Directive;
“the Establishments Directive” means Council Directive 95/69/EC laying down the conditions and arrangements for approving and registering certain establishments and intermediaries operating in the animal feed sector and amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 79/373/EEC and 82/471/EEC(6);”;
(c)after the definition of “feeding stuff intended for a particular nutritional purpose” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““feed material” means a product or substance within the definition of “feed materials” in Article 2(b) of Council Directive 1999/29/EC on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition;”(7);
(d)after the definitions of “medicinal product” and “medicinal purpose” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““Member State” means a Member State other than the United Kingdom;”;
(e)for the definition of “national list” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““national list” means the list of establishments published in London by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for the purposes of Article 6.1 of the Establishments Directive;”;
(f)after the definition of “protein equivalent of urea, biuret, urea phosphate and diureidoisobutane” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““put into circulation” means sell or otherwise supply, or have in possession with a view to selling or otherwise supplying, but in regulation 15(3), (4) and (6) also means import into Northern Ireland from a country other than an EEA State;”;
(g)after the definition of “straight feeding stuff” there shall be added the following definitions—
““third country” means a country other than a Member State or the United Kingdom;
subject to regulation 15(4A), “UK approved Article 2.2(d) establishment”, “UK approved Article 2.2(f) establishment”, “UK permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment” and “UK permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment” have the meanings given by regulation 3 of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1998.”(8).
4. In regulation 15 (which deals with undesirable substances)—
(a)for paragraphs (3) to (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
“(3) A person shall not put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, which contains any substance specified in column 1 of that Part in excess of the maximum content specified in relation thereto in column 3 thereof.
(4) Subject to paragraph (4A), a person shall not put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, or in column 2 of Chapter B of that Part, which contains any substance specified in relation to the material in question in the corresponding entry in column 1 of the Chapter in question, in excess of the maximum content specified in relation to the corresponding feed material in column 3 of Part I of that Schedule, unless the feed material put into circulation—
(a)is intended for use only on—
(i)a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment,
(ii)a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment,
(iii)an EC approved or permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment, or
(iv)an EC approved or permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment, and
(b)is accompanied by a document stating—
(i)that it is intended for use by such establishments,
(ii)that it may not be fed unprocessed to livestock, and
(iii)the amount of the specified substance contained in it,
or is intended for supply by way of export to a third country.
(4A) For the purposes of paragraph (4), a UK or EC establishment shall not be considered an approved establishment unless—
(a)in the case of a UK establishment, it is included in the most recently published national list (if any),
(b)in the case of an EC establishment, it is included in the most recently published list (if any) equivalent in the Member State concerned to the national list.
(5) A person shall not mix with any feeding stuff or feed material, any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, if the feed material so specified contains any substance specified in the corresponding entry in column 1 of that Part in excess of the maximum content specified in relation thereto in column 3 thereof.
(6) A person shall not put into circulation any feed material unless it is—
(a)sound and genuine, and
(b)of merchantable quality.”.
(b)in paragraphs (7), (9) and (10), for the expression “ingredient”, wherever it appears, there shall be substituted the expression “feed material”, with any immediately preceding indefinite article changed consequentially;
(c)paragraph (8) shall be deleted.
5. In Schedule 5 (prescribed limits for undesirable substances)—
(a)in Part I, for the expression “straight feeding stuffs”, wherever it appears, and for the expression “feeding stuffs” where it appears immediately after the expression “except:” in the entries relating to Fluorine and Mercury, and in the third indent of the entry for Arsenic, there shall be substituted the expression “feed material”; and
(b)for Part II there shall be substituted the contents of the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on
L.S.
Liam McKibben
Assistant Secretary
24th June 1999.
Regulation 5(b)
ScheduleProvisions to be substituted for Part II of Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
PART IIFEED MATERIALS
Chapter A
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Substances
Feed materials
Maximum content in mg/kg of feed materials referred to a moisture content of 12%
Aflatoxin B1
Groundnut, copra, palm-kernel, cotton seed, babassu, maize and products derived from the processing thereof
0.2>
Cadmium
Phosphates
10
Arsenic
Phosphates
20
Dioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF), expressed in international toxic equivalents
Citrus pulp
500 pg I-TEQ/kg (upper bound detection limit)
Note: Upper bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of detection are equal to the limit of detection
CHAPTER B
Column 1
Column 2
Substances
Feed materials
Arsenic
All feed materials with the exception of:— phosphates
Lead
All feed materials
Fluorine
All feed materials
Mercury
All feed materials
Nitrites
Fish meal
Cadmium
All feed materials of vegetable origin
All feed materials of animal origin with the exception of:
— feed materials for pets
Aflatoxin B1
All feed materials with the exception of
— groundnut, copra, palm-kernel, cotton seed, babassu, maize and products derived from the processing thereof
Hydrocyanic acid
All feed materials
Free gossypol
All feed materials
Volatile mustard oil
All feed materials
Rye ergot (Claviceps purpurea)
Unground cereals
Weed seeds and unground and uncrushed fruits containing alkaloids, glucosides or other toxic substances separately or in combination including
(a)
Lolium temulentum L.,
(b)
Lolium remotum Schrank,
(c)
Datura stramonium L.
All feed materials
Castor oil plant — Rizinus communis L.
All feed materials
Crotalaria spp.
All feed materials
Aldrin }singly or combined
}All feed materials
Dieldrin }expressed as dieldrin
Camphechlor (Toxaphene)
All feed materials
Chlordane (sum of cis- and trans-isomers and oxychlordane, expressed as chlordane)
All feed materials
DDT (sum of DDT-, TDE- and DDE-isomers expressed as DDT)
All feed materials
Endosulfan (sum of alpha- and beta-isomers and endosulfan sulphate expressed as endosulfan)
All feed materials
Endrin (sum of endrin and of delta-ketoendrin, expressed as endrin)
All feed materials
Heptachlor (sum of heptachlor and of heptachlor-epoxide, expressed as heptachlor)
All feed materials
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)
All feed materials
Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)
alpha-isomer
All feed materials
beta-isomer
All feed materials
gamma-isomer
All feed materials
Apricots — Prunus armeniaca L.
All feed materials
Bitter almond — Prunus dulcis
All feed materials
(Mill.) D. A. Webb var. amara
(DC.) Focke (= Prunus
amygdalus Batsch var. amara
(DC.) Focke)
Unhusked beech mast — Fagus silvatica (L.)
All feed materials
Camelina — Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz
All feed materials
Mowrah, Bassia, Madhuca —
All feed materialsMadhuca longifolia (L.) Macbr. (= Bassia longifolia L. = Illipe malabrorum Engl.) Madhuca indica Gmelin (= Bassia latifolia (Roscb.) = Illipe latifolia (Roscb.) F. Mueller)
Purghera — Jatropha curcas L.
All feed materials
Croton — Croton tiglium L.
All feed materials
Indian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. integrifolia (West.) Thell.
All feed materials
Sareptian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. juncea
All feed materials
Chinese mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. juncea var. lutea Batalin
All feed materials
Black mustard — Brassica nigra (L.) Koch
All feed materials
Ethiopian mustard — Brassica carinata A. Braun
All feed materials
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 as amended (“the principal Regulations”) and implement as respects Northern Ireland—
(a)in so far as it relates to farmed and pet animals, Article 8(a) of Council Directive 96/25/EC on the circulation of feed materials, amending Directives 70/524/EEC, 74/63/EEC, 82/471/EEC and 93/74/EEC and repealing Directive 77/101/EEC (O.J. No. L125, 23.5.96, p. 35);
(b)in so far as it relates to farmed and pet animals, Article 5(2)(a) of Council Directive 1999/29/EC (O.J. No. L115, 4.5.99, p. 32), on the undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition which provision is substituted for that contained in Article 18 of Council Directive 95/69/EC (O.J. No. L332, 30.12.95, p. 15); and
(c)Annexes I and II of Council Directive 1999/29/EC, which are substituted for Annexes I and II of Commission Directive 97/8/EC (O.J. No. L48, 19.2.97, p. 22).
In addition to making minor and drafting changes, the Regulations amend the principal Regulations by—
(a)substituting, for the references in regulation 15 and Schedule 5 to “straight feeding stuffs” and “ingredients”, references to “feed materials” so as to replicate the references to “feed materials” in Articles 2(b), 3, 5, 7 and 12(3) of Council Directive 1999/29/EC (regulations 4(a) and (b) and 5);
(b)adding a new Chapter, designated “Chapter B”, in Part II of Schedule 5, and consequentially placing existing entries in that Part under the heading “Chapter A” (regulation 5(b));
(c)modifying the provisions in regulation 15(4) relating to sale etc. of ingredients (now re-designated “feed materials”) specified in Part II of Schedule 5, as regards the identities of the feed materials concerned and of those to whom they may be supplied (regulation 4(a)); and
(d)deleting regulation 15(8), which exempted from regulation 15(1) to (5) certain categories of substance (regulation 4(c)).
(1)
1970 c. 40; section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972, c. 68, Schedule 4, paragraph 6, and the Act was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980). Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “prescribed” and “regulations”
(2)
S.I. 1972/1811
(3)
1972 c. 68
(4)
1954 c. 33 (N.I.)
(5)
S.R. 1995 No. 451, amended by S.R. 1996 No. 259, S.R. 1998 No. 124 and S.R. 1998 No. 373
(6)
O.J. No. L332, 30.12.95, p. 17
(7)
O.J. No. L115, 4.5.99, p. 32
(8)
S.I. 1998/1049
