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amend the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 to provide for information about |
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the country of origin of food to be made available to consumers; and for |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Country of origin labelling |
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(1) | The Food Labelling Regulations 1996 (S. I. 1996/1499) are amended as follows. |
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(2) | In Regulation 2, after paragraph (1) insert— |
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“(1A) | Notwithstanding the definition above, for the purposes of sub- |
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paragraph (f) of regulation 5, paragraph (1)(g) of regulation 39, |
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regulations 39A, 39B and 39C— |
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“meat product” means any food which consists of meat, |
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including raw unprocessed meat, or which contains as an |
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ingredient, or as ingredients, any of the following— |
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| mechanically recovered meat; or |
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| the heart, any other internal organ, the tongue, the |
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muscles of the head, the carpus, the tarsus, or the tail |
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from any mammalian or bird species recognised as fit |
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“mechanically recovered meat” has the same meaning as in |
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Commission Directive 2001/101/EC;”. |
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(3) | In Regulation 3, after paragraph (1A)(b) insert— |
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(4) | In Regulation 5 for sub-paragraph (f) substitute— |
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“(f) | particulars of the place of origin of the meat component or |
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components of any meat product; |
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(fa) | particulars of the place of origin or provenance of any other |
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food if failure to give such particulars might mislead a |
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purchaser to a material degree as to the true origin or |
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provenance of the food; and”. |
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(5) | In Regulation 39, after paragraph (1)(f) insert— |
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“(g) | particulars of the place of origin in respect of the meat |
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component or components of any meat product as set out in |
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sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5. |
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(6) | After Regulation 39 insert— |
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(1) | For the purposes of sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5 the place of origin |
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of the meat component or components of any meat product is the |
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country where the animal from which that meat was derived was born. |
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(2) | Where meat to which sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5 applies has |
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been reared or slaughtered in a country or countries other than that in |
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which it was born the particulars of this country or countries shall also |
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be marked or labelled in accordance with the requirements of these |
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(3) | For the purposes of this Regulation section 36 of the Trade Descriptions |
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Act 1968 (c. 29) does not apply. |
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39B | Country of origin: British |
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(1) | No meat product may be labelled “British” unless the animal from |
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which the meat was derived was born, reared and slaughtered in the |
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(2) | For the purposes of paragraph (1) above “labelled “British”” means |
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either labelled with the word “British” or labelled with the Union Flag |
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or any other label implying that the country of origin of the meat was |
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(3) | For the purposes of this Regulation section 36 of the Trade Descriptions |
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(1) | For the purposes of sub-paragraph (f) of regulation 5, paragraph (1)(g) |
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of regulation 39 and regulations 39A and 39B the meat component of a |
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meat product is any meat ingredient or ingredients which makes up at |
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least 10% of the product by weight as sold to the ultimate consumer.” |
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2 | Short title and commencement |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) Act |
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(2) | This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint |
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by an order made by statutory instrument. |
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