Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 10th December, 2010.

I, BRENDAN SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 454/2010 of 26 May 2010¹ , Commission Regulation (EU) No. 568/2010 of 29 June 2010² and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 939/2010 of 20 October 2010³ , hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2010.

2. The European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 432 of 2009 ) are amended in Regulation 2(1) by substituting for the definition of "Feed Regulation" (inserted by the European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 488 of 2010 )) the following:-

" 'Feed Regulation' means Regulation (EC) No. 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 454/2010 of 26 May 2010, Commission Regulation (EU) No. 568/2010 of 29 June 2010 and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 939/2010 of 20 October 2010;".

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

26 November 2010.

BRENDAN SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations update the Food and Feed Hygiene Regulations in relation to:

(i) prohibitions on the placing on the market or use for animal nutritional purposes protein products obtained from yeasts of the Candida variety cultivated on n-alkanes;

(ii) the permitted tolerances for the compositional labelling of feed materials and compound feed; and

(iii) the labelling provisions for feed.

1 O.J. L128, 27.5.2010, p. 1

2 O.J. L163, 30.6.2010, p. 30

3 O.J. L277, 21.10.2010, p. 4