The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1401

TRADE DESCRIPTIONS

The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

23rd May 2005

Laid before Parliament

25th May 2005

Coming into force

1st October 2005

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to consumer protection, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st October 2005.

2.—(1) The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986(3) are amended as follows–

(a) in Part I of Schedule 2, by inserting the following entry after 28C–

Nos.	Column 1	Column 2
	Name	Fibre Description
28D	Polylactide	Fibre formed of linear macro-molecules having in the chain at least 85% (by mass) of lactic acid ester units derived from naturally occurring sugars, and which has a melting temperature of at least 135 °C.

(b) in Schedule 3, by inserting the following entry after 28C–

Fibre No in Schedule 2	Fibre	Percentage
28D	Polylactide	1.50

Gerry Sutcliffe,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs

Department of Trade and Industry

23rd May 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations implement Commission Directive 2004/34/EC amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Annexes I and II to Directive 96/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names (O.J. No. L89, 26.3.2004, p.35). They amend the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”), which implement Council Directive 96/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 on textile names (O.J. No. L32, 3.2.1971, p.38). This Directive consolidated Council Directives 71/307/EEC (O.J. No. L185, 16.8.1971, p.16) and 83/623/EEC (O.J. No. L353, 15.12.1983, p.8) and Commission Directive 87/140/EEC (O.J. No. L56, 26.2.1987, p.24).

These Regulations add a new entry in relation to polylactide to the list in Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations, and they also amend Schedule 3 of the principal Regulations by adding the agreed tolerance for polylactide.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the consumer pages of the DTI website at www.dti.gov.uk/ccp.

(1)

S.I. 1993/2661.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1986/26, as amended by S.I. 1988/1350, S.I. 1994/450 and S.I. 1998/1169. Entries 28A to 28C in Part I of Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 were inserted by regs. 2(a)(v) and 2(b) respectively of S.I. 1998/1169.