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S.I. No. 249/2021 - European Communities (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Table of Provisions (14)
Statutory Text (14 Articles)
1. Commission Directive 2012/7/EU of 2 March 2012
2
,
2. Commission Regulation (EU) No 681/2013 of 17 July 2013
3
,
3. Commission Directive 2014/79/EU of 20 June 2014
4
,
4. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 13
“14. Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1929 of 19 November 2019
15
.”
5. The following are revoked
(
a
) European Communities (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (
S.I. No. 13 of 2013
);
(
b
) European Communities (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (
S.I. No. 572 of 2015
);
(
c
) European Union (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (
S.I. No. 176 of 2017
);
(
d
) European Union (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2017 (
S.I. No. 568 of 2017
);
(
e
) European Union (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (
S.I. No. 295 of 2018
);
(
f
) European Union (Safety of Toys) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (
S.I. No. 362 of 2019
).
GIVEN under my hand,
18 May 2021
ROBERT TROY,
Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(
This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation
).
These Regulations give effect to two Commission Directives (Directive 2019/1922/EU of 18 November 2019 and Directive 2019/1929/EU of 19 November 2019). Directive 2019/1922/EU amends point 13 of part III of Annex II of the Toys Safety Directive (Council Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the Safety of Toys), regarding the migration limits for aluminium from toys or components of toys. Directive 2019/1929/EU amends Appendix C to Annex II of the Toys Safety Directive for the purpose of adopting specific limit values for chemicals used in certain toys, as regards formaldehyde.
1 OJ L 170, 30.6.2009, p.1
1 OJ L 170, 30.6.2009, p.1
2 OJ L 64, 3.3.2012, p.7
3 OJ L 195, 18.7.2013, p.16
4 OJ L 182, 21.6.2014, p. 49
5 OJ L 183, 24.6.2014, p. 49
6 OJ L 192, 1.7.2014, p. 49
7 OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 17
8 OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 20
9 OJ L 306, 24.11.2015, p. 23
10 OJ L 110, 27.4.2017, p. 6
11 OJ L 115, 4.5.2017, p. 47
12 OJ L 138, 25.5.2017, p. 128
13 OJ L 122, 17.5.2018, p. 29
14 OJ L 298, 19.11.2019, p. 5
15 OJ L 299, 20.11.2019, p. 51
6. Commission Directive 2015/2115/EU of 23 November 2015
7
,
7. Commission Directive 2015/2116/EU of 23 November 2015
8
,
8. Commission Directive 2015/2117/EU of 23 November 2015
9
,
9. Council Directive 2017/738/EU of 27 March 2017
10
,
10. Commission Directive 2017/774/EU of 3 May 2017
11
,
11. Commission Directive 2017/898/EU of 24 May 2017
12
,
12. Commission Directive 2018/725/EU of 16 May 2018
13
,
13. Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1922 of 18 November 2019
14
.”, and
(
d
) by renumbering the existing Schedule as Schedule 2.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
21
st May,
2021.
I, ROBERT TROY, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
section 3
of the
European Communities Act 1972
(No. 27 of 1972) and by the Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (
S.I. No. 519 of 2020
) and the Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2020 (
S.I. No. 580 of 2020
), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009
1
, as amended, hereby make the following regulations