The Hazardous Substances and Packaging (Legislative Functions and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Interpretation

2.  In this Part and in Schedule 1—

“the 2012 Regulations” means the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012(1);

“EEE” has the meaning given in regulation 4 of the 2012 Regulations, and a reference to a numbered category of EEE is a reference to the category of EEE so numbered in Schedule 1 to the 2012 Regulations;

“exemption” means an exemption, for a specified application of a specified material or component of EEE, from the restriction in regulation 3(1) of the 2012 Regulations on the use of certain hazardous substances in EEE;

“expiry date”, in relation to an exemption in Table 1 in Schedule A2 to the 2012 Regulations(2), means the date specified in the sixth column of that table as the date on which, subject to regulation 5(8), the exemption expires;

“GB REACH” means Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)(3);

“homogeneous material” has the meaning given in regulation 3(3) of the 2012 Regulations;

“restricted substance” means a substance listed in Schedule A1 to the 2012 Regulations(4);

“the list of restricted substances” means the list of substances set out in Schedule A1 to the 2012 Regulations;

“waste” means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.

(1)

S.I. 2012/3032, amended by S.I. 2014/1771, 2018/942 and 2019/492, and prospectively amended from IP completion day by S.I. 2019/188. S.I .2019/188 is amended by S.I. 2020/1540 to limit the extent of its amendments to S.I. 2012/3032 to England and Wales and Scotland.

(2)

Schedule A2 is inserted into the 2012 Regulations by regulation 12(8) of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations.

(3)

EUR 2006/1907.

(4)

Schedule A1 is inserted into the 2012 Regulations by regulation 12(8) of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations.