Feeding Stuffs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. No. 277 of 2003).

These Regulations implement Commission Directive 2002/70/EC establishing requirements for the determination of levels of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in feeding stuffs. These Regulations 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 and by amending regulation 6 so that it now includes provisions which, when read with provisions added by these Regulations to Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations, 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 if it is, in what quantity or proportion) and apply to that determination specified provisions in Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations. Further they 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.