Textiles (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,922, 29 ta’ Mejju, 2012

L.N. 191 of 2012

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Textiles (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

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

Safety Act, the Minister for Fair Competition, Small Business and

Consumers, on the advice of the Malta Competition and Consumer

Affairs Authority, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Textiles Citation and

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012 and these regulations shall be read scope.

and construed as one with the Textiles Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 427.05

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations implement the provisions of

(a)

Directive 2011/73/EU of 29 July 2011 amending, for

the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes I

and V to Directive 2008/121/EC of the European Parliament

and of the Council on textile names; and

(b) Directive 2011/74/EU of 29 July 2011 amending, for

the purposes of its adaptation to technical progress, Annex II to

Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council on certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary

textile fibre mixtures.

In the First Schedule to the principal regulations, the Amends the

First Schedule

following row shall be added immediately after row 48

to the principal

regulations.

Nos

Name

Fibre description

" 49

Polypropylene/polyamide a bicomponent fibre composed of between

bicomponent

10% and 25% by mass of polyamide fibrils

embedded in polypropylene matrix ".

In the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations, the Amends the

Fourth Schedule

following row shall be added immediately after row 48

to the principal

regulations.

Fibre No.

Fibres

Percentages

" 49 Polypropylene/polyamide bicomponent

1.00 ".

Paragraph 1 in Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the principal Amends the

Fifth Schedule

regulations shall be substituted by the following new paragraph

to the principal

regulations.

"1.

The methods for the quantitative analysis of certain

binary textile fibre mixtures, including the preparation of test

samples and test specimens, shall be those laid down in

Directive 96/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council on certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary

textile fibre mixtures (OJ L 32, 3.2.1997, p. 1), as amended by

(a) Commission Directive 2006/2/EC of 6

January 2006 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation

to technical progress, Annex II to Directive 96/73/EC of

the European Parliament and of the Council on certain

methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre

mixtures (OJ L 5, 10.1.2006, p. 10 -13);

(b) Commission Directive 2007/4/EC of 2

February 2007 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation

to technical progress, Annex II to Directive 96/73/EC of

the European Parliament and of the Council on certain

methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre

mixtures (OJ L 28, 3.2.2007, p. 14 -18);

(c) Commission Directive 2009/122/EC of 14

September 2009 amending, for the purposes of its

adaptation to technical progress, Annex II to Directive 96/

73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on

certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile

fibre mixtures (OJ L 242, 15.9.2009, p. 14–20); and

(d) Commission Directive 2011/74/EU of 29 July

2011 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to

technical progress, Annex II to Directive 96/73/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council on certain

methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre

mixtures (OJ L 198, 30.7.2011, p. 32–36).".

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