European Communities (Certain Contaminants in Foodstuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 348 of 2012).

These Regulations amend the European Communities (Certain Contaminants in Foodstuffs) Regulations 2010 so as to give effect to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 594/2012 amending Regulation (EC) 1881/2006 as regards the maximum levels of the contaminants Ochratoxin A, non dioxin-like PCBs and melamine in foodstuffs. The principal regulations are amended in regulation in the definition of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1881/2006 and in regulation 11 by inserting after paragraph (2) a new paragraph(2A), which exempts foodstuffs that were placed on the market before a specified date from the prohibition in regulation 6(2), which states that a person shall not place on the market any of the foodstuffs listed in the Annex where such foodstuffs contain a contaminant listed in the Annex, at a level exceeding the maximum level set out therein for the contaminant in question.