Pressure Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,382, 13 ta’ Frar, 2015 B 445

L.N. 49 of 2015

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Pressure Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of the

Product Safety Act, the Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer

Affairs and Civil Liberties, on the advice of the Malta Competition

and Consumer Affairs Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Pressure Citation, scope

Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and they shall be read and

commencement.

and construed as one with the Pressure Equipment Regulations, S.L. 427.29.

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations -

(a)

transpose Article 13 of Directive 2014/68/EU of

the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on

the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to

the making available on the market of pressure equipment

(recast);

(b)

shall apply to equipment falling under the scope of

the principal regulations.

(c)

shall come into force on the 1st June 2015.

Regulations 9.1 and 9.2 of the principal regulations shall Substitutes

regulations 9.1

be substituted by the following

and 9.2 of the

principal

regulations.

" 9.1. Pressure equipment referred to in regulation 6.1

shall be classified by category in accordance with Annex II of

the Directive, which is set out in Schedule II according to

ascending level of hazard.

For the purposes of such classification, fluids shall be

divided into two groups in accordance with regulations 9.1.1

and 9.1.2.

1.1. Group 1 consisting of substances and mixtures, as

defined in points (7) and (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No

1272/2008, that are classified as hazardous in accordance with

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the following physical or health hazard classes laid down in

9.2.

Where a vessel is composed of a number of

Parts 2 and 3 of Annex I to that Regulation

chambers, it shall be classified in the highest category

applicable to the individual chambers. Where a chamber

(i) unstable explosives

or

explosives

of

contains several fluids, classification shall be on the basis of the

Divisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5;

fluid which requires the highest category.".

3. Any references in existing laws, regulations and References.

(ii)

flammable gases, category 1 and 2;

administrative provisions to Article 9 of Directive 97/23/EC shall be

(iii) oxidising gases, category 1;

construed as references to Article 13 of Directive 2014/68/EU of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the

(iv) flammable liquids, category 1 and 2;

harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the

making available on the market of pressure equipment (recast).

(v) flammable liquids, category 3 where the

maximum allowable temperature is above the flashpoint;

(vi)

flammable solids, category 1 and 2;

(vii) self-reactive substances and mixtures, type A

to F;

(viii) pyrophoric liquids, category 1;

(ix) pyrophoric solids, category 1;

(x) substances and mixtures which in contact

with water emit flammable gases, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xi) oxidising liquids, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xii) oxidising solids, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xiii) organic peroxides types A to F;

(xiv) acute oral toxicity, category 1 and 2;

(xv) acute dermal toxicity, category 1 and 2;

(xvi) acute inhalation toxicity, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xvii) specific target organ toxicity – single

exposure, category 1.

Group 1 comprises also substances and mixtures contained

in pressure equipment with a maximum allowable temperature

TS which exceeds the flashpoint of the fluid;

9.1.2. Group 2 consisting of substances and mixtures not

referred to in regulation 9.1.1.

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the following physical or health hazard classes laid down in

9.2.

Where a vessel is composed of a number of

Parts 2 and 3 of Annex I to that Regulation

chambers, it shall be classified in the highest category

applicable to the individual chambers. Where a chamber

(i) unstable explosives

or

explosives

of

contains several fluids, classification shall be on the basis of the

Divisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5;

fluid which requires the highest category.".

3. Any references in existing laws, regulations and References.

(ii)

flammable gases, category 1 and 2;

administrative provisions to Article 9 of Directive 97/23/EC shall be

(iii) oxidising gases, category 1;

construed as references to Article 13 of Directive 2014/68/EU of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the

(iv) flammable liquids, category 1 and 2;

harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the

making available on the market of pressure equipment (recast).

(v) flammable liquids, category 3 where the

maximum allowable temperature is above the flashpoint;

(vi)

flammable solids, category 1 and 2;

(vii) self-reactive substances and mixtures, type A

to F;

(viii) pyrophoric liquids, category 1;

(ix) pyrophoric solids, category 1;

(x) substances and mixtures which in contact

with water emit flammable gases, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xi) oxidising liquids, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xii) oxidising solids, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xiii) organic peroxides types A to F;

(xiv) acute oral toxicity, category 1 and 2;

(xv) acute dermal toxicity, category 1 and 2;

(xvi) acute inhalation toxicity, category 1, 2 and 3;

(xvii) specific target organ toxicity – single

exposure, category 1.

Group 1 comprises also substances and mixtures contained

in pressure equipment with a maximum allowable temperature

TS which exceeds the flashpoint of the fluid;

9.1.2. Group 2 consisting of substances and mixtures not

referred to in regulation 9.1.1.

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