The Identification and Traceability of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

Review

7.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations,

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how other member States have implemented Commission Directive 2008/43/EC setting up, pursuant to Council Directive 93/15/EC(1), a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil uses(2) as amended by Commission Directive 2012/4/EU(3), which these Regulations implement.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations,

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of four years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

(1)

OJ L 121, 15.5.1993, p.20, amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p.1) and Regulation (EC) No. 219/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p.109).

(2)

OJ L 94, 5.4.2008, p.8.

(3)

OJ L 50, 22.2.2012, p.18.