
2011 No. 1009 (W.149)
AGRICULTURE, WALES
The Reporting of Prices of Milk Products (Wales) Regulations 2011
Made 29 March 2011
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 31 March 2011
Coming into force 21 April 2011

The Welsh Ministers, are designated for the purposes of making regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union.
These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references to a European Union instrument, in these Regulations, to be construed as references to that European Union instrument as amended from time to time.

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.
Title, commencement and application
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The title of these Regulations is the Reporting of Prices of Milk Products (Wales) Regulations 2011. They come into force on 21 April2011 and apply in relation to Wales.
Interpretation
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In these Regulations—
 ...
 “milk processor” (“proseswr llaeth”) means a person operating an establishment which manufactures milk products; and
 “milk products” (“cynhyrchion llaeth”) means whey powder, skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, butter, cheeses (including commodity cheeses) and raw milk.
Provision of information on prices of milk products
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(1) A milk processor must provide to the Welsh Ministers such information relating to the prices of milk products as the Welsh Ministers may by notice require ....
(2) The notice referred to under paragraph (1) may require the milk processor to provide the information requested on a regular basis, and may specify when and in what format the information must be provided.
Offences
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(1) Any person who fails to comply with a notice referred to in regulation 3(1) is guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) and the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—
(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate, or
(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
that person is guilty of the offence as well as the body corporate.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) “director” in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
Revocation
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The Reporting of Prices of Milk Products (Wales) Regulations 2005 are revoked.
Elin Jones
Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers
