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Law on food production and food safety mv. (food law). |
| Date | LO-2003-2003 12-19-124 |
| Ministry of | Health and custody ministry |
| Last modified | LAW-2015 -06-19-65 from 01.10.2015 |
| Published | In 2003 booklet 17 |
| Istrontrecation | 01.01.2004 |
| Changing | LO-1959--05-28-12 , LAW-196-04-06-3 , LO-196-06-06--08-4 , LAW-196-04-05-9 , LAW-1970-05-0-06-25 , LAW-1970-12-04-82 , LAW-1970-12-04-83 , LAW-1973--03-23-18 , LAW-1978--03-17-6 , LAW-1997-01-10-9 , LAW-1997--06-13-54 , LAW-2000--06-23-53 |
| Announcement | |
| Card title | Food law-food-food. |
Jf. former laws 28 May 1959 # 12 (Fish Quality Act), 6 apr 1962 number 3 (the flood law), 8 June 1962 # 4 (livestock law), 5 apr 1963 # 9 (herbicide law), 6 May 1970 # 25 (molecule law), 4 des 1970 # 82 (seed law), 4 des 1970 # 83 (fertiliser Law), 23 March 1973 # 18 (The feeding law), 17 March 1978 No. 6 (contemporary law), 10 jan 1997 # 9 (meat production law), 13 June 1997 No. 54 (fish disease law) and 23 June 2000 # 53 (plant health law).
The purpose of the law is to ensure health care and promote health, quality and consumer consideration along the entire production chain, as well as safeguard environmental friendly production.
The law should further promote good plant and animal health.
The law shall also uphold the regard of the players along the entire production chain, herdunder market access abroad.
The law encompasses all conditions in relation to manufacturing, labour and distribution of the stakes and nutrition, herders, herding drinking water. The law also encompasses all conditions in connection with the production of materials and items that are determined to get in touch with, or may have impact on the stakes or nutritional funds. Further, the law encompasses all the use of the stakes.
The law encompasses all conditions concerning plant and animal health, herunder products, objects and organisms that can lead with itself contagion.
The law applies to Norwegian land and sea territory, Norwegian air and sea vessels, and devices on Norwegian continental solosole. The king can provide further regulations on the law of law enforcement, herunder about the Applicability of overseas registered ships in route of Norwegian ports.
The king can provide regulations on the law of law enforcement on Svalbard, Jan Mayen, the automotive countries, in Norway's economic zone, the fishing zone of the Jan Mayyen and the fishing rights zone at Svalbard. The king can determine honest rules under consideration of the place of the site conditions.
In this law understood by
| 1. | business : Any private or public enterprise as well as private individuals who conduct any activity as mentioned in Section 2, except for activities in private and non-commercial eye-to-eye. |
| 2. | turnover : Besieside with aim for sale, outbid for sale, distribution, as well as the sale and any other form of overdrive with or without any satisfaction. |
The business shall ensure that relevant regulations granted in or in the co-hold of this Act of the Afterlevies. The king can provide regulations on who is responsible in the business, and about duty to give message about this to the regulatory authority.
The king can provide regulations on duty of duty to establish and conduct systematic control measures.
First, reason for suspicion of danger of health harmful nutrition or health or environmental harmful stakes should business immediately alert the regulatory authority.
The business and any other has corresponding notification preferences equally to the suspicion of infectious animal disease that can provide essential civic consequences. Due to the suspicion of plant claims that can provide essential civic consequences, the business and owner or use of fixed property notification preferences have been made.
The business shall immediately commit necessary measures to prevent, reduce or eliminate any damage effects, herduring halt turnover and commit withdrawal from the market.
The king can provide further regulations on the prevention of danger, notification, and commit of measures, herding information to the public.
The king can accordingly provide regulations on the prevention of impredation, notification and commit of measures, herding information to the public.
The business shall ensure that location, design and operation of activities are hygienic defensible.
The king can in regulations silence further requirements for establishing, location, design and operation of activities in enterprises, herding about message, registration and approval and about the abduction of approval.
The king can in regulations silence the requirements of suppliers of services to enterprises mentioned in the first clause, herduring about approval.
The king can in regulations ban any relationship that could cause the risk of pollution in water supply system and internal settlement net.
The Service Act Section 11 other clause on automatic grant does not apply to approvals by this paragraph.
The king can in regulation determine particularly separate case processing deadlines for the approval of this paragraph.
| 0 | Modified by law 19 June 2009 # 103 (ikr. 28 des 2009 ifg res. 19 June 2009 # 672). |
The business shall ensure that any participating in activity authored by this law has the necessary competence.
The king can provide further regulations on education, training and competence, herunder about the authority of personnel.
The king can in regulations silence demands for the stakes, plants, animals, nutrients, animaal bioproducts as well as materials and items that are determined to get in touch with or may have impact on the stakes or nutritional assets, herders approval, content and quality mv.
The king can provide regulations on limitation of or total ban on content of genmodified organisms, towards content of genes from genmodified organisms, and products from certain genmodified organisms.
The business shall ensure that marking, presentation, advertising and marketing is correct, provides recipient adequate information and is not fit to mislead.
The king can provide further regulations on marking, presentation and advertising, herunder about the ban on health care unwanted marketing and about terms for the use of volunteer brand arrangements.
The king can provide regulations on traceability for the stakes, plants, animals or nutrients, as well as about traceability for materials and items that are determined to get in touch with, or may have impact on stakes or nutritional funds.
The king can in regulation determine
| a) | ban on catch and harvest, |
| b) | the ban or limitation of the turnover and use of goods authored by this law, and |
| c) | requirements for or ban on import and export mv. |
to conduct the purposes of the law or to uphold Norway's international obligations.
The business shall provide the regulatory authority unhindered access to place or local where there is activity reauthored by the law, so that the regulatory authority can conduct necessary investigations. Foreign inspectors can participate in inspections mv. when necessary to uphold Norway's international obligations.
The business shall be of no-charge required premises, fixtures, employment assistance and tools at the disposal of the Department of Health and otherwise be helpful and facilitate the proper authority.
The business shall at the request of the Regulatory Commission of the Regulatory Commission freely provide necessary trial material or results of conducted analysis.
Anyone has the equivalent of duty as enterprises after first to third joints, when there is probable cause of suspicion of infectious animal disease or plant damage that can provide essential civic consequences, or when needed to take care of Norway's international obligations.
In particular, the regulatory authority can impose the slaughter and facilities that treat animal biproducts, to run facilities, equipment and labour at disposal to perform specific tasks.
The king can give closer regulations on access to place, bistand alike, trial withdrawals mv.
The business shall when the regulatory authority demands it, give or submit necessary information and trial material. Corresponding applies to any one that is in possession of animals, plants or other objects or organisms that can lead with them contagion. The parole authority can determine how the information is to be provided, herunder form, detail-degree mv.
Any can be imposed to provide or submit information and trial materials when this is necessary for consideration of the control of import or for consideration of contagion monitoring.
The king can further provide further regulations on the Enlightenment and reporting policy as well as if duty to announce results of conducted supervision.
The king can provide regulations on documentation, herunder quiet claims of issuance of and duty to provide and retain documentation, as well as duty to pass attests, certificates or other documentation on transport and turnover.
It is forbidden to reput nutrients that are not safe. A nutritional agent shall be deemed not to be safe if it is considered health harmful or unfit for consumption.
The king can give closer regulations on when a nutritional is considered not to be safe.
It is forbidden to reinsert the lining or giving this to animals that can become nutritional, if the lining is not safe. Fôr shall be deemed not to be safe if it is considered to be health harmful to humans or animals, or do nutritional funds from animals unfit for consumption.
The king can give closer regulations on when lining is deemed not to be safe, and quiet demands for safety for the rest of the stakes.
Any shall exhibit necessary tactic, so that it does not arise any danger of development or spread of plant damage.
Plants should not be retranslated or moved when there is reason for suspicion of plant damage benefactors that can provide essential civic consequences.
The king can give closer regulations to prevention, monitor and combat plant damage, herders about
| a) | classification and grouping of plant damage benefactors, |
| b) | creating zones, |
| c) | requirements of plants, objects, products and organisms that can be subject to risk for the spread of plant damage benefactors, and |
| d) | duty to inform about restrictions due to plant damage benefactors, herding duty to courthouse restrictions on the property. |
Any shall exhibit necessary tactic, so that there is no danger of development or spread of infectious animal disease.
Live animals should not be retranslated, taken into animal hold, moved or set out when there is reason for suspicion of infectious animal disease that can provide essential civic consequences.
The king can provide further regulations to prevent, monitor and combat animal diseases and infectious victims, herunder about :
| a) | classification and grouping of diseases and infectious victims, |
| b) | the creation of zones with different health and disease status as well as epidemiological distinct regions, |
| c) | approval and use of vaccines and other drug treatment to animals, |
| d) | Move, transport, turnover and use of living and dead animals, animalian biproducts, objects mv., |
| e) | control of breeding animals, withdrawals of gender products and reproduction of animals, and |
| f) | adage restrictions for people who can lead with the contagion of buildings used for animals, feeding or equipment to animals, and about duty to let their person and co-brought objects disinfected. |
The king can in regulations impose payment of fees to cover costs by supervision, control and particular benefits, as the completion of attests and approvals, after this law.
The king can in regulations impose enterprises to pay a tax on nutritional funds to cover costs of supervision and control following this law, which is not covered by fees in the co-clause of the first clause.
The king can in regulations impose manufacturers and importers an environmental tax on herbicide.
The king can in regulations impose them as reputs sovers, plants and plant parts, to pay a tax to the front of plant foreling and the management and control that this business requires.
The king can provide further provisions on the provision of the marriage and the fees of the fee, the uptake and the payment.
By late payment of fees and fees shall be paid interest in compliance with law 17. December 1976 # 100 on interest at delayed payment.
Tax and fees are compulsetable for the outlay.
| 0 | Modified by law 12 des 2014 # 68 (ikr. 1 jan 2015 ifg. res. 12 des 2014 # 1597). |
Owner shall have compensation for livestock that is put to death after the order of the jf. Section 23, die before such an injunction has been issued or dies as a result of imposed treatment. The provision for the right to damages is that the owner or other who is responsible for the animals mv., not even intentional or aggravated negligent has caused the disease, the outset or loss, and that he has fulfilled the notification of jf. Section 6 and followed the ordinance given in or in the co-hold of this law. For dog, cat and companion animals are paid no compensation.
When the owner is entitled to damages after the first clause, the person shall also have compensation for necessary lay-out, downmining or destruction of animals, imposed treatment, cleaning and disinfection as well as loss as a result of imposed destruction of houses, innings, lining, tools and fertilizer.
The king can provide regulations on compensation for other losses or expenses as a result of imposed measures against diseases and infectious disease victims of animals, for measures being imposed on prevention or combat plant damage, as well as on determining, scope and outmeasurement of damages after this paragraph.
The Food Authority leads supervision and can grasp the necessary ordinance for the execution of the provisions given in or in co-hold of this law, herunder ban imports, export and inflow, or impose withdrawal from the market, isolation, deflation, destruction, castration, ribbon posting, marking or special treatment. The king can delegate authority to other public or private organs and provide regulations on who are claviating in such cases.
If the facilities do not be descendants, it is unknown who is responsible, or it is necessary to obtain implemented measures quickly, the regulatory authority itself can conduct measures as mentioned in the first clause. The roof can be carried out for the accountability bill. Skin amounts are compulseous basis for the outlay.
The Food Safety Authority can account for the Norway's international obligations to determine, modify and repor time limited regulations without prerequisite hearing, and announce regulations in particular manner.
Public authorities duties at the request of the Regulatory Authority to provide necessary information without the obstruction of secrecy. Police, customs, coastguard and municipability of the request of the request assist the regulatory authority.
| 0 | Modified by law 12 des 2014 # 68 (ikr. 1 jan 2015 ifg. res. 12 des 2014 # 1597). |
The property, building or orphaned where there is suspected contagion or plant damage, can be placed clean, disinfected or destroyed mv. it can further impose restrictions on the use of such property, building or orphaned.
Dead animals or infectious artefacts can, when necessary to avoid contagion, impossibly be buried on eiger's reason, and in candid cases on other person's reason, if this can be done without significantly disadvantage for owner or user of the reason. By downfeeding on the other person's due value of sales after Section 22.
Section 23 other clauses apply accordingly.
When it has occurred or may arise conditions that may cause risk of health harmful nutrients, animal or planters health or risk of environmental damage, the business can be placed to close one or more activities. Similarly, if the business operates without the necessary approval.
The business that fails to comply with any significant injunction or rough over regulations granted in or in the co-hold of this Act may be placed to close one or more activities for a further bounded period of up to 6 months. The person responsible in business as mentioned in the first period may be denied to start up or carry out one or more activities for an equivalent delimited period as mentioned in the first period.
If the injunction of unclosure does not be descendants, it is unknown who is responsible, or it is necessary to get implemented measures quickly, the regulatory authority itself can conduct closure. Stengming can be carried out for the accountability bill. Skin amounts are compulseous basis for the outlay.
| 0 | Modified by law 12 des 2014 # 68 (ikr. 1 jan 2015 ifg. res. 12 des 2014 # 1597). |
The business that fails to comply with the stated deadline can be forced to be illegal in the form of a one-time or running day-long. The Tandits size is determined under consideration of how important it is that the injunction is being carried out and what costs it is believed to be subject to.
Compulsive can be determined already in connection with the injunction given when it is necessary that the deadline be overheld.
The arrest of the foreclosure is the compulset basis for the outlay. The parole board can be waived on-run foreclosure.
The king can give closer regulations on determining the determining and calculation of foreclosure.
Upon suspicion that there may arise danger of people's otherwise animal health related to the intake of nutrients or lining, the regulatory authority on its own initiative shall provide the public relevant information that it is in possession of.
Regulatory authority can further provide relevant information to the public when consumer-or other community considerations speak for it.
The king can provide regulations on information to the public.
Preserving or negligence violation of regulations granted in or in co-hold of this law or ordinance granted in co-law, punishable by fines or imprisonment until 1 year or both, if the relationship does not face harsher penalty determination. Under particularly display, circumstances can prison for up to 2 years of use.
The king can in regulation determine that fined, on the site or in retrospect, for violations of further indicated species can happen by simplified parent eggs after persistent wave tickets. In such a parent, the penalty and the penalty can only be concrete by the sticking word or in similar manner.
Preliminary eggs that have been printed on the site fall away if it did not immediately pass. Are the accused under 18 years, it can be given a short term for the ordinance of the parent. For parental eggs printed in retrospect, the penalty process law applies Section 256 # 5 equivalent. Such parental eggs fall away if it is not passed by the deadline. The king can give closer regulations on the steps when the parent is printed in retrospect.
The prosecution can benefit from the intended reptibility of the accused unadopted parental eggs.
Policemen who otherwise do not have parental authority, can be given the authority to unfinished simplified parent's eggs.
The king gives closer rules about the use of simplified parent eggs after this paragrafen and establishes fined and subsidized prison sentence for the violations that the arrangement should include.
| 0 | Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015). |
Regulatory authority can create or connect with data equity when necessary for consideration for the purposes of the law, or when necessary to safeguard international agreements that Norway has reached. Such registries cannot without consent contain personal information that is sensitive in accordance with law 14. April 2000 # 31 about the treatment of personal information Section 2 # 8.
The king can provide regulations on duty of duty to provide information to such records.
The king can in regulations provide rules on protection and use of product designation and commodity designations, rules for damages by the wrongful use of such designation, as well as distinctive case management rules in relation to such regulations.
The king may in this connection in regulations also narrow the registration adhall in the co-hold of the trademark law, law 21. June 1985 1 about the energy of the enterprise name and other business ennishes, law 12. March 1993 No. 32 about plant foredlerright, law 7. June 2002 # 19 about the personal name and law 14. March 2003 No. 15 about the protection of design, and refine rights granted in or in co-hold of the same laws, if it has not come in objections to a term of compliance with regulations granted in co-hold of this law.
| 0 | Modified by law 26 March 2010 # 8 (ikr. 1 July 2010 ifg. res. 25 June 2010 # 936). |
| 1 | Law number 79. |
The king can provide regulations on compensation to facilitate the aftermath of the food law requirements and obligations in primary production.
Part Article SECTION 32. DispatchRegulatory authority can in the very honest case of dispensers from the provisions given in or in the co-hold of Chapter 2 and 3 in this Act provided that it will not fight Norway's international obligations, herniated the EES agreement.
The king can provide regulations necessary to ensure the execution and padding of this law.
The king can determine the regulations necessary to fulfill Norway's obligations as a result of the EES agreement, herunder that such regulations in the event of conflict should go ahead of this law.
The following laws repused :
| 1. | Law 28. May 1959 # 12 about quality control with fish and fish goods o.a. (fish quality law) |
| 2. | Law Six. April 1962 # 3 about the floodsea (flood law) |
| 3. | Law 8. June 1962 # 4 about animal health (livestock law) |
| 4. | Law 5. April 1963 # 9 about herbicide mv. (the herbicide law) |
| 5. | Law Six. May 1970 # 25 about the ban on the picking of the moltecart (moltecartlaw) |
| 6. | Law 4. December 1970 # 82 about seed goods (such as the law) |
| 7. | Law 4. December 1970 # 83 about trade with fertilizer and soil improvement funds mv. (fertiliser law) |
| 8. | Law 23. March 1973 No. 18 on supervision of feeding goods (the feeding law) |
| 9. | Law 17. March 1978 No. 6 about interarranged nutritional control (co-ordinations Act) |
| 10. | Law 10. January 1997 No. 9 about meat production (meat production law) |
| 11. | Law 13. June 1997 No. 54 of measures against disease of fish and other aquactic animals (fish disease law) |
| 12. | Law 23. June 2000 # 53 about plant health (plant health law) |
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Part Article SECTION 36. Istrontrecation and transition regulationsThis law takes effect 1. January 2004.
Forwriting or single-ordinance granted in or in co-laws that are repea-ended or modified after Section 34 or 35 still applies until they are repea-ended.
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