Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (W.S.I. No. 2969 (W. 268) of 2006)

1 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES S TAT U T O RY I N S T R U M E N T S 2006 No. 2969 (W.268) FOOD, WALES The Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) 1. These Regulations make a minor amendment to the Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) Regulations 2006(1) ("the principal Regulations"). The principal Regulations implement in relation to Wales Commission Decision 2006/601/EC on emergency measures regarding the non-authorised genetically modified organism "LL RICE 601" in rice products (OJ No. L 244, 7.9.2006, p.27) as amended by Commission Decision 2006/754/EC amending Decision 2006/601/EC on emergency measures regarding the non-authorised genetically modified organism "LL RICE 601" in rice products (OJ No.L306, 7.11.2006, p.17) 2. No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. (1) S.I. 2006/2923 (W.260) S TAT U T O RY I N S T R U M E N T S 2006 No. 2969 (W.268) FOOD, WALES The Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 Made 14 November 2006 Coming into force 15 November 2006 The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1). The National Assembly for Wales has been designated for the purpose of that section in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals(2). Title and commencement 1. The title of these Regulations is the Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 15 November 2006. Interpretation 2. In these Regulations "principal Regulations" means the Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) Regulations 2006(3). Amendment to Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations 3. In regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations replace the word "feed" with the word "food". (1) 1972 c. 68. (2) S.I. 2005/1971. (3) S.I. 2006/2923 (W.260). 2 Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(1). 15 November 2006 D. Elis - Thomas The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly (1) 1998 c.38. 3 © Crown copyright 2006 Printed and Published in the UK by the Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. £3.00 W443/12/06 ON