Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 2010; they come into force on 1st October 2010.

Amendments

2.The Organic Products Regulations 2009( 3 ) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 7(1) (control on movement), after “place of import” insert “or from any other place from which release for free circulation in the Community is being sought”;

(b) in regulation 8(4) (consent to movement), for “the place of import” substitute “the place where the prohibition on movement under that regulation last applied”;

(c) in regulation 10(1) (fees for registering information in the database), for “£150” substitute “£182”;

(d) in regulation 18(1) (offences), for “Schedule 2” substitute “The Schedule”;

(e) in regulation 20(1) (offence due to fault of another person), for “regulation 19” substitute “regulation 18”;

(f) in regulation 21(1) (defence of due diligence), for “regulation 19” substitute “regulation 18”;

(g) for regulation 22(2) (enforcement), substitute—

“ (2) In relation to products imported from third countries, where there is a port health authority for the place of import or other place from which release for free circulation in the Community is being sought, these Regulations and the specified Community provisions are enforced by that authority instead of by the local authority. ”

(h) in regulation 24(1) (powers following entry), for “regulation 24” substitute “regulation 23”.