Food (Issuance of Health Certificate for Export of Fish and Fish Product to the European Union) (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

FOOD (ISSUANCE OF HEALTH CERTIFICATE FOR EXPORT OF FISH AND FISH PRODUCT TO THE EUROPEAN UNION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2010 PU(A) 076/2010 18 March 2010 IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Food Act 1983[Act 281], the Minister makes the following regulations: 1. Citation and commencement (1) These regulations may be cited as the Food (Issuance of Health Certificate for Export of Fish and Fish Product to the European Union) (Amendment) Regulations 2010. (2) These regulations come into operation on 19 March 2010. 2. Amendment of regulation 4 The Food (Issuance of Health Certificate for Export of Fish and Fish Product to the European Union) Regulations 2009[P.U. (A) 92/2009], which are referred to as the "principal Regulations" in these Regulations, are amended in regulation 4 by substituting for subregulation (2) the following subregulation: "(2) The applicant under subregulation (1) shall make a declaration that: (a) he has obtained his supply of fish from, or his supply of fish product from fish supplied by an owner of a culture system or fishing vessel in respect of which a fish quality certificate under the Fisheries (Quality Control of Fish for Export to the European Union) Regulations 2009[P.U. (A) 91/2009] has been issued and is still valid; and (b) he has complied with the European Union requirements in relation to the fish and fish product that: (i) the fish is supplied by an owner of a fishing vessel which has been landed in a landing site which is in compliance with the European Union requirements; (ii) the fish and semi-processed fish product is obtained from an independent refrigerated store or processing premises which is in compliance with the European Union requirements; (iii) the imported raw materials of fish and fish product is obtained from sources approved by the European Union which shall be accompanied by a health certificate issued by the competent authority of the exporting country; (iv) the ice used in the transportation or processing of fish and fish product is obtained from ice producing premises which is in compliance with the European Union requirements; (v) the vehicle used in transporting the fish and fish product or ice is in compliance with the European Union requirements; or (vi) the processing or preparation of the fish and fish product is carried out in an export premises which is in compliance with European Union requirements.".