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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Technical barriers to trade: use of relevant international standards

Amendments of subordinate legislation

2In the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1803), in regulation 6 (presumption of conformity)—

(a)in paragraph (2), for the words from “voluntary” to “the product” substitute

standard (“S”) which—

(a)is a voluntary national standard of the United Kingdom or a standard adopted by an international standardising body, and

(b)meets the conditions in paragraph (2A),

the product;

(b)after paragraph (4) insert—

(5)In this regulation “international standardising body” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, part of Annex 1A to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation signed at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (as modified from time to time).