Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. No. 5 of 2016).

These Regulations provide for execution and enforcement in Northern Ireland of European legislation on feed hygiene, sampling and analysis for the official control of feed and official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. The Regulations provide with respect to, among other things: the requirement that businesses producing, trading in or using animal feed should be either registered, or as the case may be, approved, by the competent authorities; the right of appeal against decisions relating to registrations or approvals taken by enforcement authorities; procedures and requirements for the sampling and analysis of feed; the duty of each feed authority in its area to enforce the Regulations; and other matters regarding appeals, enforcement and offences.