Dangerous Substances and Preparations (Restrictions)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,699, 28 ta’ Diçembru, 2004

L.N. 527 of 2004

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(ACT NO. V OF 2001)

Dangerous Substances and Preparations (Restrictions)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 39 of the Product

Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications has,

on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, made the following

regulations>

The title of these regulations is the Dangerous Substances and Citation.

Preparations (Restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004, and they

shall be read and construed as one with the Dangerous Substances and

Preparations (Restrictions) Regulations, 2003 hereinafter referred to as L.N. 346 of 2003.

“the principal regulations”.

The First Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Amends the First

Schedule to the

amended as follows>–

principal

regulations.

(a) in point 28, Nickel, for paragraph 1 in the second column

there shall be substituted the following>

“(1) as from the 1st September, 2005, in all post

assemblies which are inserted into pierced ears and other

pierced parts of the human body unless the rate of nickel

release from such post assemblies is less than 0.2 µg#cm 2 #week

(migration limit)>

Provided that the provisions of point 28 hereof shall

continue to apply until the 1st September 2005<”

(b) in point 44, Azocolourants, for paragraph 1 in the second

column there shall be substituted the following>

“1. Azodyes which, by reductive cleavage of one or

more azo groups, may release one or more of the aromatic

amines listed in the Second Schedule hereof, in detectable

concentrations, i.e. above 30 ppm in the finished articles or

in the dyed parts thereof, according to the testing methods

listed in that Schedule, may not be used in textile and leather

articles which may come into direct and prolonged contact

with the human skin or oral cavity, such as>

– clothing, bedding, towels, hairpieces, wigs, hats,

nappies and other sanitary items, sleeping bags,

– footwear, gloves, wristwatch straps, handbags,

purses#wallets, briefcases, chair covers, purses worn round

the neck,

– textile or leather toys and toys which include textile

or leather garments,

– yarn and fabrics intended for use by the final

consumer.”< and

(c) in the second column of point 45, entitled diphenylether,

pentabromo derivative C 12 H 5 Br 5 O, there shall be added after

paragraph 2 thereof the following new paragraph 3>

“3. By way of derogation, until the 31st March, 2006

paragraphs 1 and 2 hereof shall not apply to aircraft emergency

evacuation systems.”

The following table shall be added immediately at the end of

the Second Schedule to the principal regulations>

B

“List of testing methods

European

Reference and title

Reference

Reference of the

Standardisation of the standard

document

superseded

Organization

standard

( 1 )

CEN

Leather - Chemical tests –

CEN ISO#TS

None

Determination of certain

17234>2003

azo colourants in dyed

leathers

CEN

Textiles – Methods for

EN 14362-1>2003

None

the determination of

certain aromatic amines

derived from azo

colourants – Part 1>

Detection of the use of

certain azo colourants

accessible without

extraction

CEN

Textiles – Methods for

EN 14362-2>2003

None

determination of certain

aromatic amines derived

from azo colourants –

Part 2> Detection of the

use of certain azo

colourants accessible by

extracting the fibres”.

ESO> European Standardisation Organisations>

CEN> rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Bruxelles< tel. (32-2) 550 08 11, fax> (32-2) 550 08 19. http>##www.cenorm.be

CENELEC> rue de Stassart 35, B-1050 Bruxelles< tel (32-2) 519 68 71, fax> (32-2) 519 69 19.

http>##www.cenelec.org

ETSI> 650, route des Lucioles, F-06921 Sophia Antipolis< tel. (33) 492 94 42 00, fax> (33) 493 65 47 16.

http>##www.etsi.org”

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