- Enforced by
- FSA
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 2 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.004
Requirements under Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002: offences
Prosecution
- Breach EU food safety, traceability or export rulesAny Person
Unlimited fine
s.006
Enforcement
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- District councils must enforce EU food law in their districtLocal authority
16 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 178/2002
s.005
Punishment of offences
s.006
Defence for exports
s.007
Application of various provisions of the Order
s.008
Amendment of the Order
s.009
In Article 5 (interpretation) – (a) paragraphs (1) and (3)...
s.010
Article 6 (rendering food injurious to health) shall be renumbered...
s.011
Article 7 (selling food not complying with food safety requirements)...
s.012
(1) In Article 8 (inspection and seizure of suspected food)...
s.013
In Article 10 (prohibition orders) there shall be inserted after...
s.014
In Article 20(2) (defence of due diligence) there shall be...
s.015
In Article 36(3) (a) (punishment of offences) there shall be...
s.016
In Article 2 (interpretation) – (a) in paragraph (2) in...
s.017
Consequential amendment of Regulations
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.