Electronic Equipment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2023

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 21,092, 28 ta’ Lulju, 2023

L.N. 195 of 2023

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and

Electronic Equipment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 38, 39 and 40

of the Product Safety Act, the Minister responsible for consumer

affairs, 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 No. 2) Regulations, 2023, and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Restriction of Use of Hazardous

Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations, S.L. 427.57.

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission

Delegated Directive (EU) 2023/171 of 28 October 2022 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 hexavalent chromium as an

anticorrosion agent in gas absorption heat pumps.

These regulations shall come into force on 1 st September

(3)

2023.

In Schedule III to the principal regulations, immediately Amends

Schedule III to

after item 9(a)-II there shall be added the following new item

the principal

regulations.

"9(a)-III Up to 0.7% hexavalent Applies to category 1 and

chromium by weight, expires on 31 December

used as an anticorro- 2026.".

sion agent in the

working fluid of the

carbon steel sealed

circuit of gas absorp-

tion heat pumps for

space and water heat-

ing

Schedule VIII to the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) immediately after the last paragraph thereof,

"Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/1632 of 12 May

2022 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 the use of lead in certain magnetic resonance imaging devices

***********.", there shall be added the following new item

"- Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2023/171 of

28 October 2022 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 hexavalent chromium as an

anticorrosion

agent

in

gas

absorption

heat

pumps***********."; and

(b) immediately after the footnote "**********

Applicable as from 1st March 2023." thereof there shall be added

the following new footnote

"*********** Applicable as from 1 st September

2023.".

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