S.I. No. 8/2007 - European Communities (Names and Labelling of Textile Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Names and Labelling of Textile Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2007.

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the European Communities (Names and Labelling of Textile Products) Regulations 1998 (

S.I. No. 245 of 1998

).

3. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended, in the definition of “the Directive”, by inserting after “and Commission Directive No. 2004/34/EC of 23 March 2004” the following: “and Commission Directive 2006/3/EC of 9 January 2006”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

6 January 2007

MICHEÁL MARTIN

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be legal interpretation).

The labelling of textiles is governed by the Principal Regulations [

S.I. No. 245 of 1998

which transposed EU Directive 96/74/EC]. Commission Directive 2006/3/EC amends the Principal Regulations by adding a new textile called “elastomultiester”.

1 O.J. No. L5, 10.01.2006, p.14.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of

19

th January

, 2007.

I, MicheáI Martin, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to the Commission Directive 2006/3/EC of 9 January 2006

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, hereby make the following Regulations—