CHAPTER IITRADE AND MANUFACTURING RESTRICTIONS CONCERNING MERCURY, MERCURY COMPOUNDS, MIXTURES OF MERCURY AND MERCURY-ADDED PRODUCTS

Article 5Export, import and manufacturing of mercury-added products

1.

Without prejudice to stricter requirements set out in other applicable F1F2assimilated law, the export, import and manufacturing in F3Great Britain of the mercury-added products set out in Annex II shall be prohibited as from the dates set out therein.

2.

The prohibition laid down in paragraph 1 shall not apply to any of the following mercury-added products:

(a)

products that are essential for civil protection and military uses;

(b)

products for research, for calibration of instrumentation, or for use as a reference standard.

F4(3.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply to the transport of mercury-added products from Northern Ireland into Great Britain, and from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, subject to the following modification.

(4.

Paragraph 1 is to be read as if for “export, import and manufacturing in Great Britain” there were substituted “transport from Northern Ireland into Great Britain, and from Great Britain into Northern Ireland,