SCHEDULE 8 E+W+SAmendment of the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001

Amendment to regulation 2 E+W+S

2.  Regulation 2 is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) after “equipment for use outdoors” insert “as it has effect immediately before [F1 IP completion day]”;

(ii) omit sub-paragraph (b); and

(iii) for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations and a reference to a paragraph in a regulation is a reference to a paragraph in that regulation.”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) before the definition of “CE marking” insert—

““approved body” has the meaning given to it in regulation 13”;

(ii) in the definition of “CE marking”—

(aa) for “regulation 11” substitute “ Article 3(c) of the Directive ”, and

(bb) for “Schedule 7” substitute “ Annex IV to the Directive ”;

(iii) omit the definition of “the Commission”;

(iv) in the definition of “equipment for use outdoors”, omit from “all the kinds of machinery” to “that is to say”;

[F2 (v) in the definition of “responsible person”—

(aa) for “European Union” in the first two places in which it occurs substitute “ United Kingdom ”;

(bb) for “the European Union” in sub-paragraph (c) in the second place in which it occurs substitute “Great Britain”;]

(vi) omit the definition of “notified body”; and

(vii) after the definition of “sound power level LWA” insert—

““UK marking” means the marking in the form set out in Annex 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93;”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 8 para. 2(a)(i) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/852), regs. 2(2), 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(b)(i)

F2 Sch. 8 para. 2(b)(v) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1460), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 5(2)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1