Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (No.2) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (W.S.I. No. 1311 (W.93) of 2005).

These Regulations, which apply to Wales, further amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 1995/3187), as already amended, and implement Directive 2003/114 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The amendments to the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 are:: (a) to insert a definition of flavouring, as the Regulations now apply to control the use of miscellaneous additives in flavourings; (b) to bring up-to-date the definition of "Directive 95/2/EC" to cover the amendment of that Directive by Directive 2003/114/EC (reg. 3(b)); (c) a new definition for the term "stabilizer" to include substances which increase the binding capacity of food (reg. 3(d)); (d) to amend regulation 4 to ensure that a flavouring which lawfully has in or on it a permitted miscellaneous additive can be used as an ingredient in a compound food (reg. 4); (e) to provide that where a permitted miscellaneous additive used in a flavouring performs a technological function in the final food in which that flavouring is an ingredient, it is to be regarded as an additive of the final food (reg. 5); (f) to prohibit the use of additives in flavourings in quantities greater than the minimum necessary, or in circumstances where they would be a hazard to human health or misleading to the consumer, and making contravention an offence (reg. 5); (g) to make transitional provision in order to allow the marketing of additives, flavourings or foods marketed or labelled before 27 January 2006, which are legal under existing rules (reg. 6); (h) to make provision for the restricted use of additives in flavourings; (i) to bring up-to-date the title of Part 4 of Schedule 8 to take account of Commission Directive 1999/21/EC on dietary foods for special medical. In addition they make amendments relative to single additives.