Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Laid: 05 February 2019
Draft Affirmative

The Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (hereon after referred to as ‘this instrument’) fixes inoperabilities in the retained EU legislation on food additives, flavourings, enzymes, extraction solvents and processing aids which are c ollectively referred to as food improvement agents. The amendments in this instrument are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the European Un ion (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to enable the regulatory requirements applicable to these substances to operate effectively as domestic legislation after the UK has left the EU.

This instrument amends the Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (England) Regulations 2013 which provides for the enforcement in England of the regulatory requirements for food improvement agents, with similar legislation enacted across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It will also amend eleven EU Regulations (as listed at para 6.2) that provide the detailed rules for these substances. This instrument will also revoke Regulation (EU) No 257/2010 which provides for the establishment of an ongoing programme of re-evaluation of food additives that were approved prior to 2009.

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