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The Textile Products (Determination of Composition) Regulations 2008
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Citation, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Textile Products (Determination of Composition) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 2nd February 2008.
(2) The Textile Products (Determination of Composition) Regulations 2006(1) are revoked.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“Directive 73/44/EEC” means Council Directive 73/44/EEC of 26 February 1973 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the quantitative analysis of ternary fibre mixtures(2);
“Directive 96/73/EC” means Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 on certain methods for the quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures(3);
“textile product” has the same meaning as in the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986(4).
3. References in these Regulations to Annex I (Preparation of test samples and test specimens) and Annex II (Methods for quantitative analysis of certain binary fibre mixtures) to Directive 96/73/EC and Annex I (Quantitative analysis of ternary fibre mixtures general) and Annex II (Method of quantitative analysis by manual separation of ternary fibre mixtures) to Directive 73/44/EC are references to those Annexes as amended from time to time.
Purpose
4.—(1) These Regulations apply for the purpose of the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986 for determining in the course of any official test the composition of any textile product comprising a binary textile fibre mixture or a ternary fibre mixture.
(2) In this regulation “official test” means a test carried out by or on behalf of a person whose duty it is to enforce the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986.
Test samples and specimens
5.—(1) Test samples and test specimens shall be prepared for analysis in accordance with the provisions of Annex 1 to Directive 96/73/EC.
(2) In this Regulation “test samples” and “test specimens” have the same meaning as in Article 2 of Directive 96/73/EC.
Test processes
6.—(1) The analysis of a binary textile fibre mixture which is specified in Annex II to Directive 96/73/EC shall be carried out and the results calculated and expressed in accordance with that Annex.
(2) The analysis of a binary textile fibre mixture other than one for which a method of analysis is specified in Annex II to Directive 96/73/EC shall be carried out by the use of any valid method of analysis; and the test report shall set out the result obtained and, so far as is known, the degree of accuracy and the method used.
(3) The analysis of a ternary fibre mixture shall be carried out in accordance with Annex I and Annex II to Directive 73/44/EEC and the results calculated and expressed in accordance with Annex I.
Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Consumer Affairs
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
8th January 2008
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