The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 / Rheoliadau Bwyd a Bwyd Anifeiliaid (Diwygiadau Amrywiol) (Cymru) (Ymadael â’r UE) 2022

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

the Annex to Commission Directive 82/475/EEC laying down the categories of feed materials which may be used for the purposes of labelling compound feedingstuffs for pet animals (OJ No L 213, 21.7.1982, p. 27–28) is transposed into the Regulations as a new Schedule 1A;

Annexes 1 and 2 to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed (OJ No L 140, 30.5.2002, p. 10–22) are transposed into the Regulations as new Schedules 1B and 1C;

the tertiary legislation-making powers of the EU Commission in Articles 7 and 8 of Directive 2002/32/EC to amend the lists of undesirable substances in Annexes 1 and 2 that Directive, and to define acceptability criteria for detoxification processes, are retained. Regulation 4(8) inserts a new Regulation 15A into the Regulations, conferring corresponding regulation-making powers on the Welsh Ministers, exercisable in relation to Wales.