The Detergents (Amendment) Regulations 2013

• Citation: S.I. 2013/1244
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations—

(a) may be cited as the Detergents (Amendment) Regulations 2013;

(b) come into force on 30th June 2013.

Section 2 Amendment of the Detergents Regulations 2010

(1) The Detergents Regulations 2010 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 for the definition of Regulation 648/2004 substitute—

“Regulation 648/2004” means Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European

Parliament and of the Council on detergents ;

(3) In regulation 7, after paragraph (1) insert—

(1A) Any manufacturer who places on the market a consumer laundry detergent in contravention of Article 4a of Regulation 648/2004 is guilty of an offence.

(4) Omit regulation 9.

(5) In regulation 11(1) for “6,7 or 9” substitute “6 or 7”.

(6) In regulations 12(1) and 13, for “regulations 6,7 or 9” in each place occurring substitute “regulations 6 or 7”.

(7) In paragraph (3) of regulation 26 for “regulation 9 (prohibition on the sale of certain detergents)” substitute “regulation 1A”.

Section 3 Amendment of the Detergents Regulations 2010

After regulation 30 insert—

Review

(31)

(1) Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations as they apply to England;

(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 reasonable, have regard to how Regulation 648/2004 is implemented in other Member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these 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 in a less burdensome way.

(4) In this regulation “review period” means the period of five years beginning with 30th June 2013, and, subject to paragraph (5), each successive period of five years.

(5) If a report under this regulation is published before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period is to begin with the day on which that report is published.

Section 4 Amendment of the Detergents Regulations 2010

In the table at Schedule 2 (Enforcement of Regulation 648/2004), after the entry for Article 3 and before the entry for Article 9 insert—