AGRICULTURE Title and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on the following dates: a regulations 1 to 8(a) and 10 and Schedule 2 on 1st June 1996; b regulations 8(b) and 9 and Schedule 1 on 31st July 1996. Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 2 The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 – 10 below. 3 In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “daily ration”there shall be inserted the following definitions — “ EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as amended by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993; “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement; . 4 For regulation 10 there shall be substituted the following regulation: 10 For the purposes of section 74, the limits of variation in relation to any mis-statement in a statutory statement or mark as to the nature, substance or quality of a feeding stuff, where the mis-statement relates to— a an analytical constituent specified in the first column of any of Parts A to D of Schedule 3, or b energy value of a feeding stuff specified in the first column of Part E of that Schedule, shall be as set out with respect to that constituent or feeding stuff in the corresponding entry in the second column of the relevant Part of that Schedule. . 5 In regulation 15— a in each of paragraphs (3), (4) and (6), for the words “a Member State of the European Community”there shall be substituted the words “an EEA State”; b for paragraph (11)(b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph: b hide treated with tanning substances and its waste; ; c in paragraph (12), after the expression “Council Directive 75/442/ EEC ” there shall be added the words “on waste, as amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC ” . 6 In regulation 22(1)(a), after the figure “70”, there shall be inserted the figure “73,”. 7 In Part C of Schedule 3 (“OTHER FEEDING STUFFS NOT COVERED BY PARTS A OR B”), for the provisions in the second column relating to the analytical constituent “Acid index” there shall be substituted the following provisions: If present in excess— 1.5 for declarations of 15% or more 10% of the amount stated for declarations of 2% or more but less than 15% 0.2 for declarations less than 2% . 8 In Schedule 4— a in Part II (“PERMITTED COLOURANTS”)— i for the provisions in Columns 1 to 3 relating to the names or descriptions “Carotenoids and xanthophylls” and “Capsanthin” there shall be substituted the following provisions: E 160c 1. Carotenoids and xanthophylls: Capsanthin C 40 H 56 O 3 ii for the provisions in Column 2 relating to item 3 there shall be substituted the following provisions: All colourants (other than Patent Blue V and Acid Brilliant Green BS ) at present permitted for use in human food by European Community legislation, as implemented by Regulations made under the Food Safety Act 1990 ; b in Part VI (“TRACE ELEMENTS”), for the provisions relating to the element Iodine-I there shall be substituted the contents of Schedule 1 to these Regulations. 9 In the provisions relating to the substance Aflatoxin B1 in Chapter B in Part I of Schedule 5 (“FEEDING STUFFS”), for the provisions in columns 2 and 3 relating to complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except dairy animals, calves, lambs and kids) there shall be substituted the following provisions: Complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats except: 0.05 — dairy cattle 0.005 — calves and lambs 0.01 10 In Schedule 7 (“CONTROL OF CERTAIN PROTEIN SOURCES”) — a after the provisions relating to item 1.1.1. (“Bacteria cultivated on methanol”) there shall be inserted the contents of Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and b for the provisions in Column 5 relating to item 3.2.2 (“Concentrated liquid L-Lysine (base)”) there shall be substituted the following provisions: L-Lysine: min 50% . Angela Browning Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 22nd April 1996 Lindsay Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office 15th April 1996 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Gwilym Jones Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 16th April 1996