Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 1677 (W. 180) of 2003).

These Regulations: (a) amend the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 by: substituting a revised regulation 3, which makes the requirements as regards the prescribed manner of taking and handling samples, which previously applied only to samples of feeding stuffs, applicable also to feed materials to be sampled pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC, amending regulation 6 so that it now includes provisions which specify the method of analysis to be used to determine whether dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are present or active in a sample of a feeding stuff or a feed material to be analysed pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC, and modify Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970 so as to provide that, in order to determine whether dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are present or active in a sample of a feeding stuff or a feed material to be analysed pursuant to Directive 2002/70/EC, the sample is to be submitted to and analysed by a laboratory which satisfies specified requirements of that Directive; and making consequential modifications to Parts I and II of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations; (b) amend the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 by disapplying regulation 7 it in relation to regulations 11 and 11A and ensure that it does not become applicable in relation to the new regulation 11B, provide that samples taken in accordance with section 76 of the 1970 Act are to be deemed to be taken in the prescribed manner for the purposes of Part IV of that Act; (c) make consequential amendments to the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999.