Compendium of National Regulations for FCM - Vmk

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IRELAND
(last update09/05/2007)
SUMMARY
• EC legislation implemented as listed below.
• No additional national provisions.
• Legislation implemented by the European Communities (Plastics and other materials)(Contact with food) Regulations, 2006,
which give effect in Ireland to EU Directives on food contact materials.
• Made under the European Communities Act 1972.
• Legislation available on www.irishstatutebook.ie and www.fsai.ie
• Sales Point: Government Publications
Sun Alliance House
Molesworth St. - Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 6613111
Fax: +353 1 4752760
IMPLEMENTATION OF EC DIRECTIVES
ALL FOOD CONTACT MATERIALS
All EU directives and regulations on European Communities (Plastics and other materials)(Contact with food) Regulations,
food contact materials*
2006 (S.I. No. 139 of 2006), as amended by the European Communities (Plastics and other
materials)(Contact with food) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 566 of 2006)^
*Except for the following legislation, the implementation of which is being progressed:
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006 on good manufacturing practice for materials and articles
intended to come into contact with food;
• Directive 2007/19/EC amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to
come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used
for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with
foodstuffs.
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 372/2007 laying down transitional migration limits for plasticisers in gaskets
in lids intended to come into contact with foods
^These regulations consolidated the legislation on food contact materials and repealed the following older regulations:
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) Regulations, 1991 (S.I. No.
307 of 1991)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) Regulations,
1993 (S.I. No. 295 of 1993)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) (No 2)
Regulations, 1994 (S.I. No. 93 of 1994)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) Regulations,
1996 (S.I. No. 226 of 1996)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) Regulations,
1997 (S.I. No. 335 of 1997)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) Regulations,
1998 (S.I. No. 278 of 1998)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) Regulations,
2000 ( S.I. No. 475 of 2000)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2002 ( S.I.
No. 542 of 2002)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2003 (S.I. No.
76 of 2003)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2005 (S.I. No.
232 of 2005)
• European Communities (Materials and Articles Intended to come into Contact with Foodstuffs) (Amendment) (No 2)
Regulations, 2005 (S.I. No. 544 of 2005)
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liability for its content.