The Notification of New Substances (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations amend the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”) to implement, as respects Great Britain, Council Directive No. 87/18/EEC (OJ No. L15, 7.1.87, p. 15) on the application of the principles of good laboratory practice and the verification of their application for tests on chemical substances, in so far as it relates to the tests required to be carried out under the principal Regulations and the verification of the application for those tests.

2.  The Regulations also amend the definition of a “new substance” in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations following the publication of the inventory referred to in Article 13.1 of Council Directive 79/831/EEC (OJ No. L259, 15.10.79, p. 10) amending for the sixth time Council Directive 67/548/EEC (OJ No. L196, 16.8.67, p. 1) (OJ/SE 1967, p. 234)) on the classification packaging and labelling of dangerous substances and known as “the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS)” as required by Article 1.4(a) of that Directive.

3.  The Principles of Good Laboratory Practice is obtainable from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Chemicals Division (Environment Directorate), 2, Rue Andre-Pascal, 75775 Paris, Cedex 16, and EINECS is available from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Agency Publications, 51 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5DR, ISBN 0 11 967896 9.