Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs)(Derogations) Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 1508).

These Regulations implement Council in part Directive 91/492/EC. One of the requirements of the Directive is that dispatch centres and purification centres are to approved only if they meet the requirements of the Directive. The member states may grant a derogation in respect of certain requirements relating to equipment and structures. The Directive provides for a derogation of all requirements set out in column (2) of the Schedule granted by Member States to applicants who made an application for derogation before the 1st July 1992. These Regulations also set out the procedures to be followed on an application for derogation (reg. 4) and how such application is to be determined (reg. 5). Purification centre means an establishment with tanks fed by naturally clean sea water or sea water that has been cleaned by appropriate treatment, in which live bivalve molluscs are placed for the time necessary to remove microbiological contamination in order to make them fit for human consumption.