Aerosols Dispensers (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,744, 21 ta’ Marzu, 2017

L.N. 93 of 2017

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Aerosols Dispensers (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 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 Aerosols Citation and

Dispensers (Amendment) Regulations, 2017, and these regulations commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Aerosol Dispensers

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 12th

February, 2018.

Immediately after regulation 2.2 of the principal Amends

regulation 2 of

regulations there shall be added the following new regulation

the principal

regulations.

"2.3 These regulations transpose Commission Directive

2016/2037 of 21 November 2016 amending Council Directive 75/

324/EEC as regards the maximum allowable pressure of aerosol

dispensers and to adapt its labelling provisions to Regulation

(EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the

Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances

and mixtures.".

Regulation 7 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 7 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

in regulation 7.2 the words "Director of Consumer

Affairs" shall be substituted by the words "Director General of

Technical Regulations Division";

(b)

regulation 7.2.2 shall be deleted; and

(c)

in regulation 7.3 the words "Consumer and

Industrial Goods Directorate of the Malta Standards Authority"

shall be substituted by the words "Technical Regulations Division

of the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority".

Point 2.2 of the Schedule to the principal regulations shall Amends point

2.2 of the

be substituted by the following

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

Labelling

Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1272/

2008, each aerosol dispenser must visibly bear the

following legible and indelible marking

(a) where the aerosol is classified as ‘non-

flammable’ according to the criteria of point 1.9, the

signal word ‘Warning’ and the other label elements

for Aerosols Category 3 provided for in Table 2.3.1

of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;

(b) where the aerosol is classified as

‘flammable’ according to the criteria of point 1.9, the

signal word ‘Warning’ and the other label elements

for Aerosols Category 2 provided for in Table 2.3.1

of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;

(c) where the aerosol is classified as

‘extremely flammable’ according to the criteria of

point 1.9, the signal word ‘Danger’ and the other

label elements for Aerosols Category 1 provided for

in Table 2.3.1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No

1272/2008;

(d) where the aerosol dispenser is a consumer

product, the precautionary statement P102 provided

for in Part 1, Table 6.1 of Annex IV to Regulation

(EC) No 1272/2008;

(e) any additional operating precautions which

alert consumers to the specific dangers of the

product; if the aerosol dispenser is accompanied by

separate instructions for use, the latter must also

reflect such operating precautions.".

Point 3.1.2 of the Schedule to the principal regulations

shall be substituted by the following

"3.1.2 Filling

The pressure at 50°C in the aerosol dispenser must

not exceed the values provided for in the following table,

depending upon the content of gases in the aerosol

dispenser

Pressure at

Content of gases

50°C

Liquefied gas or mixture of gases having

a flammable range with air at 20°C and a

12 bar

standard pressure of 1,013 bar

Liquefied gas or mixture of gases not

having a flammable range with air at

13,2 bar

20°C and a standard pressure of 1,013

bar

Compressed gases or gases dissolved

under pressure not having a flammable

15 bar

range with air at 20°C and a standard

pressure of 1,013 bar

".

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