PART 2Trade and other matters

Information about non-food product safety

I118Interpretation of sections 14 to 17

1

In sections 14 to 17 and this section—

  • “market surveillance” means any activity conducted or measure taken for the purpose of ensuring that a product complies with relevant legal requirements;

  • “market surveillance authority” means—

    1. a

      a person in the United Kingdom with any function of carrying out market surveillance that is conferred by an enactment or rule of law, and

    2. b

      a person in any other country or territory with any corresponding function;

  • “non-food product safety annex” means one of the following annexes to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement—

    1. a

      F1Annex 11: Motor vehicles and equipment and parts thereof, or

    2. b

      F2Annex 13 : Chemicals;

  • “permitted purpose” has the meaning given by section 14(3);

  • “relevant authority” means—

    1. a

      a Minister of the Crown, or

    2. b

      the Health and Safety Executive;

  • “relevant legal requirements” means such requirements of the law relating to a product as apply in the territory in which the product is made available on the market, put into service or put into use.

2

For the purposes of sections 14 and 15 and this section, information which relates to the safety of non-food products includes—

a

information about whether, and the extent to which, a non-food product complies, or may comply, with any—

i

relevant legal requirement, or

ii

other assessment that relates to product safety,

b

information about developments, or potential developments, in the field of safety of non-food products, and

c

the exercise of functions by market surveillance authorities in relation to non-food products.