Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 850

DANGEROUS DRUGS

Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made

18th March 2004

Laid before Parliament

22nd March 2004

Coming into force

13th April 2004

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) in relation to the notification and control of substances and the control of the import and export of goods, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 13th April 2004.

2.—(1) The Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) Regulations 1993(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In Category 2 of Schedule 1, after “Piperidine” there shall be inserted “Potassium permanganate”.

(3) For the table in Schedule 2 (specified quantities of scheduled substances in Category 2 of Schedule 1) there shall be substituted the table in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Caroline Flint

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

18th March 2004

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 2 SPECIFIED QUANTITIES OF SCHEDULED SUBSTANCES IN CATEGORY 2 OF SCHEDULE 1

Substance	Quantity
Acetic anhydride	100 litres
Anthranilic acid and its salts	1 kilogramme
Phenylacetic acid and its salts	1 kilogramme
Piperidine and its salts	500 grammes
Potassium permanganate	100 kilogrammes

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) Regulations 1993 (“the Regulations”) in accordance with Council Directive 92/109/EEC (as amended by Commission Directives 2003/101/EC and 2001/8/EC). The substance potassium permanganate is added to Category 2 of Schedule 1, which specifies scheduled substances for the purpose of regulation 2 of the Regulations, with regulation 2 defining the term “scheduled substance”. The table in the Schedule replaces the table in Schedule 2 (specified quantities of scheduled substances in Category 2 of Schedule 1) to the Regulations. The corresponding quantity for the substance acetic anhydride is amended from 20 litres to 100 litres and the substance potassium permanganate is added to the table with the corresponding quantity of 100 kilogrammes.

(1)

1972 c. 68. The Secretary of State is the designated Minister for the purpose of these Regulations by virtue of S.I. 1981/1536 and S.I. 1983/1706.

(2)

S.I. 1993/2166, amended by S.I. 2001/3683.