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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No.545 as already amended by S.R. 2006 No. 18, S.R. 2006 No. 427, S.R. 2006 No. 471 and S.R. 2007 No. 450) (“the Feeding Stuffs Regulations”).

2.  These Regulations provide for the implementation of Commission Directive 2008/4/EC amending Directive 94/39/EC as regards feedingstuffs intended for the reduction of the risk of milk fever (OJ No. L6, 10.1.2008, p.4).

3.  The Regulations amend the table in Chapter A of Schedule 7 (permitted feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes and provisions relating to their use) to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations, by replacing the existing entries relating to the reduction of the risk of milk fever with the revised entries contained in Commission Directive 2008/4/EC. This Directive permits, subject to specified labelling requirements, two additional types of dietetic feed to be marketed for the reduction of milk fever in dairy cows.