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The Controls on Dangerous Substances and Preparations Regulations 2006

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2.—(1) In these Regulations—

authorised person” means a person authorised under regulation 9(2) and includes any person authorised under paragraph 11 of Schedule 3;

CAS Number” means a number assigned by the Chemicals Abstracts Service and given in the CAS Registry Handbook(1);

the Dangerous Substances Directive” means Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations(2), as amended at the date that these Regulations are made(3);

EINECS Number” means the number given in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances(4);

the enforcing authority” means in respect of—

(a)

England and Wales, the Environment Agency;

(b)

Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;

(c)

Northern Ireland, the Department of the Environment.

preparations” means mixtures or solutions composed of two or more substances;

substances” means chemical elements and their compounds as they occur in the natural state or as produced by industry.

(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations which are used in the Dangerous Substances Directive have the meaning they bear in that Directive.

(1)

The CAS Registry Handbook, ISSN 0093-058X, is published by the Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

(2)

OJ L262, 27.9.1976, p.201.

(3)

As at the date that these Regulations are made, Council Directive 76/769/EEC has been amended 28 times, the last published amendment is Directive 2005/69/EC (OJ L323, 9.12.2005, p.51).

(4)

OJ C146A, 15.6.1990, p.1. For each substance listed in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substance (EINECS) there is an identification code, starting at 200-001-8.

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