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Changes over time for: The Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2010 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 19 October 2019. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
2010 No. 1671 (W.158)
The Welsh Ministers are designated F1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 F2 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union.
These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for any reference to the following Regulations to be construed as a reference to those Regulations as amended from time to time—
Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 F3 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation);
Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 F4 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs; and
Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 F5 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs for hatching and farmyard poultry chicks.
Insofar as these Regulations are made in exercise of powers under the Food Safety Act 1990 F6, the Welsh Ministers have had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency as required by section 48(4A) F7 of that Act.
There has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation of the following Regulations as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council F8 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.
Accordingly, the Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by–
section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A F9 of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972; and
sections 6(4) F10, 16(1) F11, 17 F12, 26 F13 and 48(1) F14 of the Food Safety Act 1990 and now vested in the Welsh Ministers F15.
2. The Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2009 F16 Regulations are revoked.
F16S.I. 2009/793.
“Council Directive 1999/74/EC” (“Cyfarwyddeb y Cyngor 1999/74/EC”) means Council Directive 1999/74/EC F17 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens;
for which any notice required under section 37(2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 F19 has been given;
[F20“Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003” (“Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 2160/2003”) means Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents;
[F21“Regulation (EU) 2013” (“Rheoliad (EU) 2013”) means [F22Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products], as amended from time to time;] F23...
(3) Any expression which is not defined in paragraph (1) but is used in Part 3 or 4 of, or Schedule 2 to, these Regulations and in [F24Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013], or Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, has the same meaning in those provisions of these Regulations as it does in the EC Regulation in which it is used.
(a)any provision of the Single CMO Regulation [F25or Regulation (EU) 2013] mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or
(a)any provision of F26... [F27Regulation (EU) 2013] mentioned in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, as read with any provision mentioned in any corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or
F17OJ No L 203, 3.8.1999, p 53, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 (OJ No L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).
F18Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 52(a)
F191982 c. 30 as read with section 17(5) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).
F20Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 52(b)
F21Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(2)
F22Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 24(2)(a)
F23Word in reg. 3(1) omitted (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 24(2)(b)
F24Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(3)
F25Words in reg. 3(5)(a) inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(4)
F26Words in reg. 3(6)(a) omitted (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 24(2)(c)
F27Words in reg. 3(6)(a) inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(4)
PART 2 E+WEggs for hatching and chicks
PART 3 E+WEggs in shell for consumption: general requirements
8.—(1) This Part applies to eggs to which point I(1) of [F28Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 apply (eggs in shell for consumption produced by hens of the species Gallus gallus).
(a)to the sale of eggs to which point I(1) of [F29Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 apply, where the eggs are sold, without any quality or weight grading, directly to the final consumer by the producer–
(b)except insofar as it relates to the requirement imposed by point III(3) of [F30Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013, to the sale of eggs to which point I(1) of Part VI of Annex VII] to that Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 apply, where the eggs are sold, without any quality or weight grading, directly to the final consumer by the producer in a local public market in the region of production.
F28Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(5)(a)
F29Words in reg. 8(2)(a) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(5)(a)
F30Words in reg. 8(2)(b) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(5)(b)
11.—(1) The provision in the second sub-paragraph of point III(1) of [F31Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] (requiring Class B eggs to be marked) does not apply where Class B eggs are to be marketed exclusively in the United Kingdom.
(2) The provision in the first sub-paragraph of point III(3) of [F32Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] (requiring eggs sold by a producer to a final consumer in a local public market in the region of production to be marked in accordance with point III(1) of [F32Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013]) does not apply in the case of a producer with up to 50 laying hens if the name and address of the producer are indicated at the point of sale.
F31Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(6)
F32Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(6)
PART 4 E+WEggs in shell for consumption: salmonella control related requirements
PART 5 E+WMiscellaneous provisions
(16) The procedure in a magistrates' court under this regulation is by way of complaint and the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 F33 applies to the proceedings.
F331980 c. 43.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 F34 (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person to whom a notice is to be given is—
“electronic communication” (“cyfathrebiad electronig”) has the same meaning as in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 F35.
F341978 c. 30. Section 15(1) was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).
F352000 c. 7.
section 21 F36 (defence of due diligence);
F36Section 21(2) was amended by S.I. 2004/3279.
40. Any written authority granted to any person to act in matters arising under or in relation to the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995 F37 or the Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2009 F38 has effect as if it referred to these Regulations.
F37S.I. 1995/1544, revoked by S.S.I. 2005/332 in relation to Scotland, S.I. 2007/2245 in relation to England and S.I. 2009/793 (W.71) in relation to Wales.
F38S.I. 2009/793.
PART 1 E+WPROVISIONS OF THE SINGLE CMO REGULATION [F39or Regulation (EU) 2013]
F39Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 heading inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(7)(a)
Relevant provision of the Single CMO Regulation [F40or Regulation (EU) 2013]
Provisions to be read with the provisions of the Single CMO Regulation [F40or Regulation (EU) 2013] mentioned in column 1
[F41Article 74 of Regulation (EU) 2013], insofar as it relates to the marketing of eggs for hatching and chicks Article 116 of, and Part C of Annex XIV to, the Single CMO Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Prohibition on the marketing of eggs for hatching and of chicks except in accordance with the marketing standards laid down in Part C of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008.
Point II(1) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Marking of eggs for hatching.
Point II(2) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Article 3(4) and (5) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Transportation and packing of eggs for hatching.
Point II(3) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Article 3(8) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Importation of packages of eggs for hatching from a third country.
Point III(1) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Packing of chicks by species, type and category of poultry.
Point III(2) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Article 4(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Content and marking of boxes of chicks.
Point III(3) of Part C of Annex XIV [F42to the Single CMO Regulation] Point III(1) of Part C of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation and Article 4(1) and (3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 Importation of chicks from a third country.
F40Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 headings inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(7)(b)
F41Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(7)(c)
F42Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 inserted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(7)(d)
[F43 PART 1 E+WPROVISIONS OF REGULATION (EU) 2013
F43Sch. 2 Pt. 1 substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(8)(a)
Articles 75(2) and (3) F44... Article 30(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008 Marking of eggs imported from a third country where the rules applied in relation to those eggs in that country have been found to offer sufficient guarantees as to equivalence with EU legislation
Articles 75(2) and (3) F44... Articles 11, 30(2) and (3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 589/2008 Marking of eggs imported from a third country where sufficient guarantees of equivalence of the rules relating to those eggs with EU legislation have not been provided.]
F44Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 table omitted (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 24(3)(a)
Article 2(1) The first indent of [F45point II(1) of Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013], paragraph (a) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Part D of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 and regulation 16 as read with the Schedule 3 entry relating to paragraph (a) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Part D of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 Quality characteristics of Class A eggs and cases in which eggs meeting those quality characteristics must be categorised as Class B eggs.
Article 2(4) The second indent of [F45point II(1) of Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013], paragraph (a) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Part D of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 and regulation 16 as read with the Schedule 3 entry relating to paragraph (a) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Part D of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 Quality characteristics of Class B eggs and cases in which eggs meeting the quality characteristics for Class A eggs must be categorised as Class B eggs.
Article 4(1) [F46Point II(2) of Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] and Article 4(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 Grading of Class A eggs by weight.
Article 4(2) Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 and [F47Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011] Weight grading indications.
Article 6(3) Articles 12(1)(d) and 13 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 and [F48point 1(a) of Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011] Packs to be marked with date of minimum durability at the time of packing.
Article 8(5) The second sub-paragraph of [F49point III(2) of Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] and Article 10 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 Marking of Class B eggs for marketing in another Member State.
Article 9(1) Point 2 of the Annex to Commission Directive 2002/4/EC F50 on the registration of establishments keeping laying hens, covered by Council Directive 1999/74/EC Producer code.
Article 10 The second sub-paragraph of [F49point III(2) of Part VI of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2013] Indications on Class B eggs.
Article 12(2), first and second sub-paragraphs Article 12(1) of, and Part A of Annex I, and Annex II, to Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, [F51Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products], and regulations 12, 13 and 14 Farming method to be shown on the outer surface of packs containing Class A eggs.
Article 13 [F52Article 9(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011] Date of minimum durability.
Article 30(3) F53... to the Single CMO Regulation Marking of packs containing eggs imported from a third country where sufficient guarantees of equivalence of the rules relating to those eggs with Community legislation have not been provided.
F45Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(8)(b)(i)
F46Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(8)(b)(ii)
F47Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 53(a)
F48Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 53(b)
F49Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(8)(b)(iii)
F50OJ No L 30, 31.1.2002, p 44, last amended by Commission Directive 2006/83/EC (OJ No L 362, 20.12.2006, p. 97).
F51Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 24(3)(b)
F52Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table substituted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 53(c)
F53Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 table omitted (1.1.2014) by virtue of The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3270), regs. 1(c), 5(8)(b)(iv)
These Regulations revoke and replace the Eggs and Chicks (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/793).
As in the 2009 Regulations, they make provision for the enforcement and execution of directly applicable EU marketing standards relating to eggs for hatching and farmyard poultry chicks and directly applicable EU marketing standards relating to eggs in shell for consumption. They also make new provision for the enforcement of directly applicable EU controls for Salmonella serotypes with public health significance in relation to the marketing and use of eggs in shell for human consumption.
As regards the EU marketing standards relating to eggs for hatching and chicks, these Regulations—
make the failure to comply with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (OJ No L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 (OJ No L 168, 28.6.2008, p. 5) mentioned in Schedule 1 an offence (regulation 5);
include provisions relating to the registration of pedigree breeding establishments, other breeding establishments and hatcheries (regulation 6); and
provide an exception from Article 3(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 by allowing eggs for hatching to be marked in a different manner from that mentioned in that provision (regulation 7).
As regards the directly applicable EU marketing standards relating to eggs in shell for consumption, these Regulations—
make the failure to comply with the provisions of the Single CMO Regulation and Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 (OJ No L 163, 24.6.2008, p 6) mentioned in Schedule 2 an offence (regulation 9);
include provisions relating to the authorisation of packing centres to grade eggs (regulation 10);
provide an exception from the provisions of points III(1) and (3) of Part A of Annex XIV to the Single CMO Regulation, as regards the marking of eggs for consumption (regulation 11);
vary the minimum requirements for the marketing of eggs as free-range eggs by authorising livestock grazing on open-air runs for hens producing such eggs (regulation 12);
provide an exception from the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, by allowing eggs to be marketed as free-range eggs although not all of the requirements laid down in that Regulation for free-range eggs are met (regulation 13); and
provide an exception from the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, by allowing eggs to be marketed as barn eggs although not all of the requirements laid down in that Regulation for barn eggs are met (regulation 14).
As regards the new Salmonella related controls, the Regulations include a provision making the failure to comply with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 (OJ No L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 1) of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of Salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents mentioned in Schedule 3 an offence (regulation 16).
These Regulations also provide for food authorities and the Welsh Ministers to enforce the Regulations (regulation 17) and impose a duty on enforcement authorities to give assistance and information to each other (regulation 18). They confer powers of entry (regulation 19) and other powers (regulation 20), including seizure and destruction powers. They require certain procedures to be followed in the event of any exercise of the seizure powers (regulation 21). They provide for the issue of compliance notices (regulation 22) and provide for appeals against certain decisions of the Welsh Ministers and enforcement authorities (regulation 23). They enable the Welsh Ministers to impose additional record-keeping requirements (regulation 24). They provide for the publication of cases where seized items have been destroyed and cases in which Compliance notices have been given (regulation 25).
They also create a scheme for the issuing and payment of penalty notices for an offence under regulation 16, more particularly provisions relating to the giving of a penalty notice (regulation 30); the content of such a notice (regulation 31); the amount of a penalty payable under a penalty notice (regulation 32 and Schedule 4); the period in which a penalty must be paid and the effect of paying a penalty (regulation 33); the method of paying a penalty (regulation 34); the issue of a certificate relating to the payment or non-payment of a penalty (regulation 35); the payment of penalties into the Welsh Consolidated Fund (regulation 36); and the withdrawal of a penalty notice (regulation 37).
They also contain provisions relating to the giving of notices under the Regulations (regulation 38). They apply various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c. 16) to the Regulations (regulation 39) and make a transitional provision (regulation 40).
A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at www.wales.gov.uk or from Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer, Welsh Assembly Government, Government Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.