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The Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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These Regulations amend the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”) which implement Directive 96/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names. The Regulations set the names to be used for different types of textile fibres and fibre descriptions and the percentage allowances to apply to the anhydrous mass of each fibre when determining composition of mixtures by weight.
Regulation 2 provides that the references to Annex I and Annex II to Directive 96/74/EC are to those annexes as amended from time to time. The reference to Annex I and Annex II replaces the names of and references to textile fibres and allowances previously set out in Schedules 2 and 3 of the principal Regulations. Schedules 2 and 3 of the principal Regulations are therefore revoked.
The references to Annexes I and II to Directive 96/74/EC in the Regulations include the amendments to those Annexes made at the date of these Regulations including those last made by Directive 2007/3/EC to add a new entry elastolefin to the list of names in Annex I and to add the agreed tolerance for elastolefin to Annex II which came into force on 23rd February 2007.
The Department intends to maintain up to date information on the amendments to the relevant Annexes as they are made and come into force by publishing these on website address /consumers/buying-selling/Adprice/Product-labelling.
An impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs to business is available together with a transposition note from the Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website. Copies of the impact assessment and transposition note have also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.
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