22. Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply—
(a)to medical devices and monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(b)to in vitro diagnostic medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2016; and
(c)to industrial monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2017.
23.—(1) Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply to cables or spare parts for the repair, the reuse, the updating of functionalities or upgrading of capacity of the following—
(a)EEE placed on the market before 1st July 2006;
(b)medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(c)in vitro diagnostic medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2016;
(d)monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(e)industrial monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2017;
(f)EEE which benefited from an exemption listed in the Directive or the previous Directive and which was placed on the market before that exemption expired, provided that the specific exemption concerned those cables or spare parts.
(2) In this paragraph “previous Directive” means Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment(1).
24. Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply to reused spare parts—
(a)recovered from EEE placed on the market before 1st July 2006; and
(b)used in equipment placed on the market before 1st July 2016,
provided that reuse takes place in auditable closed-loop business-to-business return systems, and that the reuse of parts is notified to the consumer.
OJ No L 37, 13.2.03, p 19.