UK Offence Report

The Environmental Protection (Controls on Hexachloroethane) Regulations 1998

UK Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 545 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
3 March 1998
In force from
1 April 1998
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, give effect to European Parliament and Council Directive 97/16/EC which amended for the fifteenth time Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations. Regulation 3 prohibits the use of hexachloroethane in the manufacturing and processing of non-ferrous metals. Regulation 4 provides for exceptions to the prohibition in regulation 3. Regulation 5 makes it a criminal offence to contravene regulation 3 and specifies the penalties for such an offence. In the Directive hexachloroethane is identified by reference to its CAS Number, which is 67-72-1, and its EINECS Number, which is 2006664. The CAS Number is given in the CAS Registry Handbook, ISSN 0093-058X, which may be inspected at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0BN. The EINECS Number is given in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (OJ No. C146A, 15.6.90, p.1.).

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