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1. These Regulations revoke and re-enact with changes the Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/590 (W.66)). The principal changes are that:
(a) it is provided that the introduction into Wales of certain feed and food products is prohibited and that a person who contravenes such a prohibition is guilty of an offence;
(b) it is provided that an authorised officer of an enforcement authority must serve a notice when he or she proposes to place a consignment of feed or food under official detention:
(i) in case of suspicion of non-compliance or because there is doubt as to the identity or the destination of the consignment, or
(ii) because the feed or food does not comply with feed or food law;
(c) it is provided that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with certain obligations relating to the checking of products that are introduced into Wales is guilty of an offence;
(d) it is provided that expenses may be charged by competent authorities where they arise from additional official controls or arise in respect of co-ordinated assistance and follow-up by the European Commission; and
(e) the definitions of 'relevant feed law' and 'relevant food law' in Schedules 2 and 3 respectively are revised.
2. These Regulations which, like S.I. 2006/590 (W.66), apply in relation to Wales, provide for the execution and enforcement there of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (OJ No. L165, 30.4.2004, p.1), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006 (OJ No. L363, 20.12.2006, p.1), in relation to 'relevant feed law' and 'relevant food law', which terms are defined in Schedules 2 and 3 respectively. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No. L191, 28.5.2004, p.1), which should be read with a further Corrigendum (OJ No. L204, 4.8.2007, p.29).
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