Chemicals (Amendment) Act 2010
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Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act. |
2.— Subsection (1) of section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by— | |
(a) substituting the following definition for the definition of “chemical”: | ||
“ ‘chemical’ includes— | ||
(a) a chemical, preparation or article within the meaning of the Rotterdam Regulation, | ||
(b) a detergent within the meaning of the Detergents Regulation, | ||
(c) a substance, preparation or article within the meaning of the REACH Regulation, | ||
(d) a substance, mixture or article within the meaning of the CLP Regulation, and | ||
(e) a dangerous substance within the meaning of— | ||
(i) Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 1 on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, and | ||
(ii) Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 2 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances;”, | ||
(b) inserting the following definition: | ||
“ ‘CLP Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures 3 ;”, | ||
(c) substituting the following definition for the definition of “Detergents Regulation”: | ||
“ ‘Detergents Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No. 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents 4 ;”, | ||
(d) substituting the following definition for the definition of “European Regulations”: | ||
“ ‘European Regulations’ means— | ||
(a) the Rotterdam Regulation, | ||
(b) the Detergents Regulation, | ||
(c) the REACH Regulation, and | ||
(d) the CLP Regulation;”, | ||
(e) substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (b) of the definition of “national authority”: | ||
“(b) a competent authority in the State under section 8(2), 8(3) or 8(3A) (inserted by section 4 of the Chemicals (Amendment) Act 2010), or”, | ||
(f) substituting the following definition for the definition of “REACH Regulation”: | ||
“ ‘REACH Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency 5 ;”, | ||
and | ||
(g) substituting the following definition for the definition of “Rotterdam Regulation”: | ||
“ ‘Rotterdam Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No. 689/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals 6 ;”. | ||