S.I. No. 5/1985 - European Communities (Surveillance of Sanitary Fixtures) Regulations, 1985.


S.I. No. 5 of 1985.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SURVEILLANCE OF SANITARY FIXTURES) REGULATIONS, 1985.

WHEREAS the State has been authorised under the Regulation of the Council of the European Communities dated the 14th day of November, 1983 (No. 3420/83(1)) to take the surveillance measures hereinafter specified:

NOW, I, JOHN BRUTON, Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Surveillance of Sanitary Fixtures) Regulations, 1985.

2. (1) In these Regulations "the Minister" means the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

(2) A reference in these Regulations to a Nimexe code shall be taken to be a reference to that code in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1445/72(2), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3589/83(3) and by any subsequent Regulations of an institution of the European Communities.

3. (1) These Regulations apply to goods which originate in Czechoslovakia and are specified at the Nimexe code mentioned or referred to in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) The particulars stated in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations are inserted solely to facilitate identification of the goods referred to at the Nimexe code mentioned or referred to in column (1) of that Schedule opposite the insertion in column (2) and, accordingly, nothing contained in column (2) shall affect the construction or limit or control the operation of any provision of these Regulations (including the mention of, or reference to, the Nimexe code in column (1)).

(1)OJ No. L346 of 8.12.1983, p.6.

(2)OJ No. L161 of 17.7.1972, p.1.

(3)OJ No. L364 of 27.12.1983, p.1.

4. The importation into the State of any goods to which these Regulations apply shall be subject to the production by the importer of an import document issued by the Minister.

SCHEDULE

Nimexe Code

Short Description of Goods

(1)

(2)

69. 10-10

Sinks, wash basins, bidets, water closet pans, urinals, baths and like sanitary fixtures of porcelain or china.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 8th day of January, 1985.

JOHN BRUTON,

Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of the Instrument is to enable the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism to operate a system of surveillance on imports of sanitary fixtures manufactured or produced in Czechoslovakia.