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European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 503 of 2003).

Country/Territory
Ireland
Document type
Regulation
Date
2003
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Pollution control Hazardous substances Standards Internal trade
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

The purpose of these Regulations is to amend Schedules 1 and 3 to the principal Regulations, 2003 implement specified EC legislation. The Regulations: (i) place further restrictions in relation to the marketing and use of arsenic-treated wood, place further restrictions on the marketing and use of dangerous substances by prohibiting the use of azodyes (blue colourant) for colouring textile and leather articles, place restrictions on the marketing and use of diphenylether, pentabromo derivative and diphenylether, octabromo derivative, and place further restrictions on the marketing and use of two substances newly classified as category 1 carcinogens, nineteen substances newly classified as category 2 carcinogens, five substances newly classified as category 2 mutagens, one substance newly classified as category 1 toxic for reproduction and sixteen substances newly classified as category 2 toxic for reproduction.

Full text
English
Website
www.irishstatutebook.ie

References - Legislation

Amends

European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 220 of 2003).

Legislation | Ireland | 2003

Keyword: Pollution control, Hazardous substances, Classification/declassification, Access-to-information, Packaging/labelling

Source: FAO, FAOLEX