Quick-Frozen Food (Amendment) Regulations, 2007 (L.N. 240 of 2007)

B 3146 L.N. 240 of 2007 FOOD SAFETY ACT (CAP. 449) Quick-Frozen Food (Amendment) Regulations, 2007 IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Food Safety Act, the Minister of Health, the Elderly and Community Care has made the following regulations>– 1. The title of these regulations is the Quick-Frozen Food (Amendment) Regulations, 2007, and they shall be read and construed as one with the Quick-Frozen Food Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”. 2. These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st January, 2007, provided that products which do not comply with the provisions of these regulations, but which comply with the provisions of the Quick-Frozen Food Regulations, 2002, may continue to be sold till 31st December, 2007. 3. These regulations implement the provisions of Commission Directive 2006#107#EC of the 20th November, 2006. 4. For subregulation (3) of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following>– “(3) (a) Where any food is manufactured outside Malta, the equivalent of the term “quick-frozen” shall only be used in relation to food manufactured in the same manner as provided in regulation 4 of these regulations. (b) The list provided for in Schedule 3 specifies the names under which quick-frozen food are sold in all the European Community languages> Provided that no such food may be offered for sale in Malta as quick-frozen food unless its label contains the wording “quick-frozen”, “iffri]at malajr” or “surgelato”. Citation. L.N. 286 of 2002. Commencement. Scope. Amends regulation 9 to the principal regulations. B 3147 Provided further that this provision shall not apply to food which is not offered for sale in Malta as a quick-frozen food.” 5. The following shall be added as Schedule 3 immediately after Schedule 2 to the principal regulations>– Adds Schedule 3 to the principal regulations. B 3148 Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment ta’ l-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta Mitbug[ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern — Printed at the Government Printing Press Prezz#Price Lm0.12 (€0.28) “Schedule 3 Names under which quick-frozen food are sold, in all the European Community languages: — in Danish: ‘dybfrossen’, — in German: ‘tiefgefroren’ or ‘Tiefkühlkost’ or ‘tiefgekühlt’ or ‘gefrostet’, — in Spanish: ‘ultracongelado’ or ‘congelado rápidamente’, — in Greek: ‘ ’ or ‘ ’ or ‘ - ’, — in English: ‘quick-frozen’, — in French: ‘surgelé’, — in Italian: ‘surgelato’, — in Dutch: ‘diepvries’, — in Portuguese: ‘ultracongelado’, — in Finnish: ‘pakastettu’, — in Swedish: ‘djupfryst’, — in Czech: ‘hluboce zmrazené nebo hluboce zmrazená nebo hluboce zmrazený’, — in Estonian: ‘sügavkülmutatud or külmutatud’, — in Latvian: ‘ tri sasald ts’, — in Lithuanian: ‘greitai užšaldyti’, — in Hungarian: ‘gyorsfagyasztott’, — in Maltese: ‘iffri at’, — in Polish: ‘produkt g boko mro ony’, — in Slovenian: ‘hitro zamrznjen’, — in Slovak: ‘hlbokozmrazené’, — in Bulgarian: ‘ ’, — in Romanian: ‘congelare rapid ’.”