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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012, Paragraph 1.
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1.—(1) The market surveillance authority may serve a notice under this paragraph on an economic operator who makes EEE available on the market if the authority has reasonable grounds for believing—
(a)the EEE is an infringing product; or
(b)the economic operator has failed to comply with its obligations under regulation 15, 19, 25 or 27(1).
(2) A compliance notice must—
(a)describe the alleged infringing EEE (the “specified EEE”) or alleged failure to comply with the obligations set out in sub-paragraph 1(b) (the “alleged breach”) in a manner sufficient to identify it; and
(b)state the exact grounds on which the notice is based.
(3) A compliance notice may—
(a)require the economic operator in an appropriate case, and having regard to the economic operator’s ability to take the measures in light of that person’s position in the supply chain, to remedy the situation or matters which gave rise to the authority’s belief that the specified EEE was an infringing EEE or an alleged breach had occurred; or
(b)where it is not possible for the specified EEE to cease to be an infringing EEE, require the economic operator to secure that the specified EEE is withdrawn or that its being made available on the market is prohibited or restricted.
(4) A compliance notice must tell the economic operator—
(a)what compliance is required and the period within which it must be completed;
(b)to give the authority evidence that the economic operator has complied with the notice;
(c)the consequences of failing to comply with the notice; and
(d)the rights of appeal against the notice under these Regulations and any time limits for their exercise.
(5) Proceedings must not be commenced against a person under regulation 37 in respect of an alleged contravention of a requirement of these Regulations where—
(a)a compliance notice has been served on that person in respect of the alleged contravention; and
(b)the specified compliance period in that notice has not come to an end.
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