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PART 4REVOCATIONS, AMENDMENTS AND REVIEW

Revocations and amendments

34.  Subject to paragraph 10 of Schedule 2, the following regulations are revoked:

(a)except for regulations 39 and 39A and Schedules 12 and 12A, the Biocidal Products Regulations 2001;

(b)in so far as they apply to Great Britain and except for regulation 3(c) and Schedule 1, the Biocidal Products (Amendment) Regulations 2003(1);

(c)in so far as they apply to Great Britain, the Biocidal Products (Amendment) Regulations 2005(2);

(d)the Biocidal Products (Amendment) Regulations 2007(3);

(e)the Biocidal Products (Amendment) Regulations 2010(4); and

(f)the Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals Regulations 2008(5).

35.  The 2009 Regulations are amended in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4.

36.  The following provisions of the 2009 Regulations are revoked—

(a)regulation 5;

(b)regulations 4, 6 to 11 and 13, with effect from 1st June 2015;

(c)except to the extent that they continue to apply for the purposes of enforcing regulation 12 of the 2009 Regulations, regulations 14 to 18, with effect from 1st June 2015; and

(d)regulations 1 to 3, and 12, with effect from 1st June 2018.

37.  The enactments, or instruments made by the Scottish Parliament, specified in Schedule 5 are amended to the extent specified in that Schedule.

Review

38.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)carry out a review of regulations 5 to 33,

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to the measures taken to implement rules on enforcement and appointment of authorities in relation to the PIC, CLP and Biocides Regulations in other Member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the measures taken to implement rules on enforcement and appointment of authorities in relation to the PIC, CLP and Biocides Regulations,

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before 1st September 2018.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.