Title, commencement and extent

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2002.

(2) These Regulations apply to England.

Amendment of previous Regulations

2. The Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations 1997(2), in so far as they apply to England, shall be amended-

(a)by the insertion, at the end of the definition of "the Directive" in paragraph (2) of regulation 1 (title, commencement and interpretation), of the words "and by Commission Directive 1999/39/EC(3)"; and

(b)in regulation 5 (manufacture and composition of processed cereal-based foods and baby foods)-

(i)by the omission of the word "or" from the end of paragraph (c)(ii); and

(ii)by the insertion, at the end of paragraph (d), of the word "; or" followed by the following paragraph:

"(e)which-

(i)if it is manufactured as ready for consumption, contains, and

(ii)if it is not so manufactured, would if reconstituted according to its manufacturer's instructions contain,

residues of any individual pesticide at a level exceeding 0.01 mg/kg".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1. These Regulations amend the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations 1997 in relation to England, in implementation of Commission Directive 1999/39/EC amending Directive 96/5/EC on processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children.

2. The Regulations extend the prohibitions on manufacture and sale in the 1997 Regulations to food of that nature containing individual pesticide residues above a level of 0.01 mg/kg, measured when ready for use or when reconstituted according to the manufacturer's instructions (regulation 2(b)), and bring the reference to the 1996 Directive up to date (regulation 2(a)).

3. A regulatory impact assessment, which includes a compliance cost assessment of the effect that these Regulations have on business costs, has been prepared and placed in the Library of each House of Parliament. Copies may be obtained from Branch A of the Food Labelling, Standards and Consumer Protection Division of the Food Standards Agency, PO Box 31037, Ergon House, c/o 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3WG.