Emergency prohibition or restriction
22.—(1) The Executive may prohibit or restrict the sale or use of a biocidal product which has been authorised or registered under these Regulations, where it has valid reasons to consider that the biocidal product constitutes an unacceptable risk to human or animal health or to the environment.
(2) Where the Executive prohibits or restricts the sale or use of a biocidal product pursuant to paragraph (1), it shall immediately inform the Commission and member States of that prohibition or restriction and of the reasons for it.
(3) A person shall not sell a biocidal product—
(a)whose sale has been prohibited pursuant to paragraph (1); or
(b)in a manner which contravenes any restriction on the sale of that biocidal product imposed pursuant to paragraph (1).
(4) A person shall not use a biocidal product—
(a)whose use has been prohibited pursuant to paragraph (1); or
(b)in a manner which contravenes any restriction on the use of that biocidal product imposed pursuant to paragraph (1).
(5) The Executive shall revoke a prohibition or restriction issued under this regulation where a decision made in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 28(3) does not uphold the prohibition or restriction.