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Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 20,720, 15 ta’ Ottubru, 2021
L.N. 388 of 2021
PRODUCT SAFETY ACT
(CAP. 427)
Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and
Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of
the Product Safety Act, the Minister for Tourism and Consumer
Protection, on the advice of the Director General (Technical
Regulations), has made the following regulations:-
(1) The title of these regulations is the Restriction of Use Citation, scope
of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment and
commencement.
(Amendment) Regulations, 2021 and these regulations shall be read
and construed as one with the Restriction of Use of Hazardous S.L. 427. 57.
Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations,
hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".
(2) These regulations transpose Commission Delegated
Directive (EU) 2021/647 of 15 January 2021 amending, for the
purposes of adapting to scientific and technical progress, Annex III to
Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
as regards an exemption for the use of certain lead and hexavalent
chromium compounds in electric and electronic initiators of explosives
for civil (professional) use, and Commission Delegated Directive (EU)
2021/884 of 8 March 2021 amending, for the purposes of adapting to
scientific and technical progress, Annex IV to Directive 2011/65/EU
of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the validity
period of an exemption for the use of mercury in electric rotating
connectors used in intravascular ultrasound imaging systems.
(3)
These regulations shall have the following commencement
dates
(a) regulations 2 and 4 shall come into force on 1 st
November 2021; and
regulation 3 shall come into force on 1 st July 2022.
(b)
In Schedule III to the principal regulations, immediately Amends
Schedule III to
the principal
regulations.
after item 44 thereof there shall be added the following new item
"45 Lead diazide, lead styphnate,
Applies to category
lead dipicramate, orange lead (lead 11 and expires on 20 April
tetroxide), lead dioxide in electric and 2026.".
electronic initiators of explosives for
civil (professional) use and barium
chromate in long time pyrotechnic delay
charges of electric initiators of
explosives for civil (professional) use
In item 42 of Schedule IV to the principal regulations, the
words "Expires on 30 June 2019." shall be substituted by the words
"Expires on 30 June 2026.".
Immediately after the item "Commission Delegated
Directive (EU) 2020/366 of 17 December 2019 amending, for the
purposes of adapting to scientific and technical progress, Annex IV to
Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as
regards an exemption for lead as a thermal stabiliser in polyvinyl
chloride used in certain in-vitro diagnostic medical devices for the
analysis of blood and other body fluids and body gases******." of
Schedule VIII to the principal regulations there shall be added the
following new items
"-
Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2021/647 of
15 January 2021 amending, for the purposes of adapting to
scientific and technical progress, Annex III to Directive 2011/65/
EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an
exemption for the use of certain lead and hexavalent chromium
compounds in electric and electronic initiators of explosives for
civil (professional) use*******.
-
Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2021/884 of 8
March 2021 amending, for the purposes of adapting to scientific
and technical progress, Annex IV to Directive 2011/65/EU of the
European Parliament and of the Council as regards the validity
period of an exemption for the use of mercury in electric rotating
connectors used in intravascular ultrasound imaging
systems********.
*******Applicable as from 1 st November, 2021.
******** Applicable as from 1 st July, 2022. " .
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