Welsh Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 1440 (W.102)

The Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts (Wales) Regulations 2001

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"the 1996 Regulations" ("Rheoliadau 1996") means the Food Labelling Regulations 1996[3];

"reserved description" ("disgrifiad neilltuedig"), as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Part I or II of the Schedule and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the designated product specified in relation to that description in column 2 of that Part;

"sell" ("gwerthu") includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and a "sale" shall be construed accordingly.

    (2) All proportions mentioned in these Regulations are proportions calculated by weight and, unless the context otherwise requires, are calculated on the total weight of the product.

    (3) Any reference in these Regulations to the Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations.

Scope of Regulations
     3.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, these Regulations apply to coffee extracts and chicory extracts which are ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer or to a catering establishment.

    (2) These Regulations do not apply to the product known as café torrefacto soluble.

    (3) In this regulation - 

"catering establishment" ("sefydliad arlwyo") means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;

"preparation" ("paratoi") includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment; and

"ultimate consumer" ("defnyddiwr olaf") means any person who buys otherwise than - 

(a) for the purpose of resale,

(b) for the purposes of a catering establishment, or

(c) for the purposes of a manufacturing business.

Reserved descriptions
     4. No person shall give with any food sold by him or her, or display with any food offered or exposed by him or her for sale or in his or her possession for the purpose of sale, a label, whether or not attached to or printed on the wrapper or container, which bears, comprises or includes any reserved description or any derivative thereof or any word or description substantially similar thereto unless - 

(a) such food is the designated product to which the reserved description relates;

(b) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that the substance to which it relates is only an ingredient of that food; or

(c) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that such food is not and does not contain a designated product.

Labelling and description of designated products
     5.  - (1) Without prejudice to the 1996 Regulations, no person shall sell any designated product unless it is marked or labelled with the following particulars - 

(a) subject to paragraph (2) below, a reserved description of the product which shall be the name prescribed by law for that product for the purposes of regulation 6(1) of the 1996 Regulations;

(b) the word "decaffeinated" in the case of a product specified in column 2 of Part I of the Schedule which has been subjected to a decaffeination process and in which the residual anhydrous caffeine content does not exceed 0.30% of its coffee-based dry matter content;

(c) in the case of a product specified in item 3 of column 2 of Part I or II of the Schedule in which sugar has been used, the words "with X", "preserved with X", "with added X" or "roasted with X", as appropriate, "X" being the name of the sugar product used, which name shall be the reserved description of that product specified in relation thereto in the Specified Sugar Products Regulations 1976[4] or, if the sugar product has no such reserved description, the name of the product which if the sugar product were itself being sold as a food would be used, pursuant to the 1996 Regulations, as the name of the food;

(d) in the case of a product specified in item 2 or 3 of column 2 of Part I of the Schedule, a declaration of the minimum coffee-based dry matter content expressed as a percentage; and

(e) in the case of a product specified in item 2 or 3 of column 2 of Part II of the Schedule, a declaration of the minimum chicory-based dry matter content expressed as a percentage.

    (2) In the case of a product specified in item 3 of column 2 of Part I of the Schedule containing more than 25% coffee-based dry matter and of a product specified in item 3 of column 2 of Part II of the Schedule containing more than 45% chicory-based dry matter, the word "concentrated" may be added to the reserved description.

    (3) The information required by paragraph (1)(b) and (c) above shall be in the same field of vision as the reserved description required by paragraph (1)(a) above.

Manner of marking or labelling
     6. Regulations 35, 36(1) and (5) and 38 of the 1996 Regulations (which relate to the manner of marking or labelling of food) shall apply to the particulars with which a designated product is required to be marked or labelled by regulation 5 of these Regulations as if they were particulars with which food is required to be marked or labelled by the 1996 Regulations.

Penalties and enforcement
     7.  - (1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Regulations that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

    (2) Each food authority shall enforce and execute such provisions in its area.

    (3) The methods used to determine the free and soluble carbohydrate content of coffee extracts shall be in conformity with paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Annex to Council Directive 85/591/EEC [5] concerning the introduction of Community methods of sampling and analysis for the monitoring of foodstuffs for human consumption and shall be validated or standardised.

Transitional provision
     8. In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that - 

(a) the food concerned was marked or labelled before 13th September 2001, and

(b) the matters constituting the alleged offence would not have constituted an offence under the Coffee and Coffee Products Regulations 1978[6] if those Regulations had been in operation when the food was marked or labelled.

Defence in relation to exports
     9. In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that the food in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country (other than a Member State) which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that the food complies with that legislation.

Application of various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990
     10. The following provisions of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in those provisions to the Act or Part thereof shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as a reference to these Regulations - 

(a) section 2 (extended meaning of sale, etc.);

(b) section 3 (presumptions that food is intended for human consumption);

(c) section 20 (offences due to fault of another person);

(d) section 21 (defence of due diligence) as it applies for the purposes of section 8, 14 or 15 of the Act;

(e) section 22 (defence of publication in the course of business);

(f) section 30(8) (which relates to documentary evidence);

(g) section 33 (obstruction, etc. of officers);

(h) section 35(1) to (3) (punishment of offences) in so far as it relates to offences under section 33(1) and (2) as applied by paragraph (g) above;

(i) section 36 (offences by bodies corporate); and

(j) section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith).

Amendment and revocation
     11.  - (1) In the 1996 Regulations (in so far as they apply to Wales) in regulation 4(2) (scope of Part II) sub-paragraph (e) shall be omitted.

    (2) The following entries relating to the Coffee and Coffee Products Regulations 1978 shall (in so far as the following Regulations apply to Wales), be omitted - 

(a) in the Food (Revision of Penalties) Regulations 1982[7], in Schedule 1;

(b) in the Food (Revision of Penalties) Regulations 1985[8], in Schedule 1, Part I;

(c) in the Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990[9], in Schedule 1, Part I, Schedule 2, Schedule 3, Part I and Schedules 6 and 12;

(d) in the Food Safety (Exports) Regulations 1991[10], in Schedule 1, Part I;

(e) in the Food (Forces Exemptions) (Revocations) Regulations 1992[11], in Schedule 1, Part I;

(f) in the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995[12], in Schedule 9;

(g) in the 1996 Regulations, regulation 49(7).

    (3) The Coffee and Coffee Products Regulations 1978, the Coffee and Coffee Products (Amendment) Regulations 1982 [13] and the Coffee and Coffee Products (Amendment) Regulations 1987 [14] are hereby revoked insofar as they apply to Wales.



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[15].


D. Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

5th April 2001

[2] Functions of "the Ministers" under the Food Safety Act 1990, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (SI 1999 No. 672).back

[3] SI 1996 No. 1499; the relevant amending instrument is SI 1998 No. 1398.back

[4] SI 1976 No. 509; the relevant amending instrument is SI 1982 No. 255.back

[5] OJ No. L372, 31.12.1985, p.50.back

[6] SI 1978 No. 1420; relevant amending instruments are SI 1982 No. 254, 1987 No. 1986, 1990 No. 2486, 1991 No. 1476, 1992 No. 2596, 1995 No. 3187, 1996 No. 1499.back

[7] SI 1982 No. 1727.back

[8] SI 1985 No. 67.back

[9] SI 1990 No. 2486back

[10] SI 1991 No. 1476back

[11] SI 1992 No. 2596.back

[12] SI 1995 No. 3187.back

[13] SI 1982 No. 254.back

[14] SI 1987 No. 1986.back

[15] 1998 c.38.back