Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee Draft Report

CLA(4)-22-14

CLA444 - The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014

These Regulations make provision to enforce, in Wales, certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (OJ No L 304, 22.11.2011, p 18).

They also implement, in Wales, certain provisions of Article 6 of Directive 1999/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning foods and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation (OJ No L 66, 13.3.1999, p 16) and the second paragraph of sub-paragraph 1 of Article 3 of Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption (OJ No L 197, 3.8.2000, p 19).

Procedure:  Negative

Technical Scrutiny

The following points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.2 in respect of this instrument.

The English text of regulation 1(5) specifies 13 December 2016 as the coming into force date of certain provisions, whilst the Welsh text refers to 13 July of that year.  The ‘Contents’ list and the heading above Part 3 of Schedule 5 (to which regulation 1(5) applies) in both languages make it clear that the correct date is as stated in the English text of the regulation.  The Welsh version will therefore need to be corrected before 13 July 2016.

[Standing Order 21.2(vii) – inconsistencies between the English and Welsh texts]

Merits Scrutiny

No points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.3 in respect of this instrument.

Legal Advisers

Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

September 2014