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Following consultation with the Department of Agriculture and Rural development in Northern Ireland (DARD-NI) and the Animal Medicines Inspectorate (AMI), both enforcement bodies decided they will produce separate guidance for their inspectorates.

The practice guidance is a non-statutory document which complements the statutory Feed Law Enforcement Code of Practice in Great Britain (CoP) and provides general advice on the approach to enforcement or on the law where its intention might be unclear.

The purpose of this consultation is to obtain your views on the proposed draft practice guidance document. In particular we would be grateful if you would address the following questions:

• what are your views on the content and layout of the practice guidance?
• are you happy with the level and amount of guidance provided?
• is the guidance easy to read and user-friendly?
• is there a need for additional guidance under certain chapters or is there any other information you would like to see included?
• will the guidance have an additional impact in areas other than those recognised in the Feed Hygiene Impact Assessment?
• does the guidance go beyond the legal requirements?

The Feed Law Enforcement Code of Practice in Great Britain, which was issued under The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations 2006, was published on 29 December 2006 and can be found at the link below.

Both the Code of Practice and this guidance document are directed at local authorities and those port health authorities with responsibility for official controls on feed law (feed authorities).The practice guidance supplements the Code of Practice and fulfils a commitment by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to publish further guidance on feed law enforcement. The FSA hopes that this guidance document will further assist feed authorities with the discharge of their statutory duty to enforce relevant feed law. In addition the guidance should also make clear to businesses the criteria enforcement officers will use when they visit or inspect premises.

This consultation started on 21st December 2007 and ended on 14th March 2008.

Here are the documents we were able to locate that relate to this consultation: