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From the 1st January 2006 new legislation affects your food business (our main food page helps to details these changes).
Article 6 of EU Regulation 852/2004 requires that food businesses register their premises with the local authority allowing local authorities to plan their inspection programmes and best target their resources. It is an offence under the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 not to comply. Businesses that are already registered do not however have to re-register just because of the new legislation.
If you are not sure whether your business is already registered, or needs to be registered please contact us- our main food and health and safety page gives our full contact details. The food business registration form to register your business can be downloaded from here. (Pdf file size 111 KB). The form once completed should be sent to our Food Office (please see our main food page for full contact details. We hope in the future to be able to fully register businesses online.
EC Regulation 178/2002 defines ‘food business’ as any undertaking, whether carried out for profit or not, and whether public or private, carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of production, processing and distribution of food.
Registration is a very simple process and the registration form should only take a few minutes to complete and there is no registration fee. Local authorities cannot refuse to register premises and registration does not require to be renewed annually. However a change of proprietor or a change in the nature of the business will require the business to re-register. It is important however for any new business to register their premises with this authority at least 28 days prior to opening.
Although premises may be exempt from registration this does not mean that they are exempt from the wider provisions of food hygiene law, nor does it mean that they do not need to comply with food hygiene legislation.
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