SCHEDULE 3Amendments for the purpose of, and in connection with, implementing the EEA EFTA free trade agreement

PART 4Amendments in relation to food examiners

Amendments to the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013I19

1

The Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 201320 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 2 (interpretation), at the appropriate place, insert—

  • “specified state” means one of the states listed in Schedule 1 to the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023;

3

In Schedule 2 (qualifications of food examiners)—

a

in paragraph 6 of Part 1, for “in another Member State” substitute “in a Member State of the European Union or in a specified state”; and

b

in paragraphs 2 and 4 of Part 2, for “another Member State” substitute “a Member State of the European Union or of a specified state”.