This Regulation provides for the hygiene requirements for food producers and traders, including persons carrying out primary food production and related production activities; hygiene requirements for primary food production; hygiene requirements for food production and trade facilities; and other related conditions and premises for food and foodstuff production and trade.
This Regulation introduces the requirements of the Commission Directive 98/28/EC of 29 April 1998 granting a derogation from certain provisions of Directive 93/43/EEC on the hygiene of foodstuffs as regards the transport by sea of bulk raw sugar. The text further creates the necessary conditions for the implementation of the following: Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on food hygiene; and Commission Regulation (EC) No 579/2014 of 28 May 2014 concerning the derogation from certain provisions of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the transport of liquid oils and fat at sea.
The Annex is also part of this publication (register model sample, in relation to the article 18, paragraph 2).