Draft Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

This Statutory Rule (SR) will apply certain elements of Regulation (EC) 882/2004 on official controls. The principal elements of the SR include:

• legal powers for the authorities, with responsibility for organising and undertaking enforcement controls in respect of feed and food law, to enable them to monitor national enforcement activity
• a legal basis for the enforcement of new rules on official checks of feed and food of non-animal origin imported from outside the Community

Your views are also sought on a draft partial Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), for the SR and draft summary guidance to importers on the provisions that will affect them. Finally, your views are sought on guidance notes on the feed and food elements of EU Regulation 882/2004.

This consultation has been prepared in accordance with the HM Government Code of Practice on Consultation, which states that a consultation must follow better regulation best practice, including carrying out an Impact Assessment (Regulatory Impact Assessment in Scotland). The assessment is included in the consultation documents.

We are interested in what you thought of this consultation and would therefore welcome your general feedback on both the consultation package and overall consultation process. If you would like to assist us to improve the quality of future consultations, please feel free to share your thoughts with us by using the consultation feedback questionnaire.

Consultation feedback questionnaire (Word)

Consultation feedback questionnaire (pdf)

In accordance with the FSA principle of openness our Information Centre at Aviation House will hold a copy of the completed consultation. The FSA will publish a summary of responses, which may include personal data, such as your full name. Disclosure of any other personal data would be made only upon request for the full consultation responses. If you do not want this information to be released, please complete and return the Publication of Personal Data Form. Return of this form does not mean that we will treat your response to the consultation as confidential, just your personal data.

Data protection form (Word)

Data protection form (pdf)

Within three months of a consultation ending we aim to publish a summary of responses received and provide a link to it from this page.

If, after three months, the summary is still not showing, please contact the person who was responsible for the original consultation. Alternatively, you can contact the FSA Consultation Co-ordinator by email: consultationcoordinator@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk