The Environmental Protection (Controls on Injurious Substances) Regulations 1999

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“controlled substance or preparation” means a substance or preparation containing one or more of the substances listed in the Schedule to these Regulations;

“professional and industrial use” includes use on railways, in electric power transmission and telecommunications, for fencing and in harbours and waterways;

“treated wood” means wood that has been treated with a controlled substance or preparation that contained:

(a)

benzo-a-pyrene at a concentration of greater than 0.05% by mass; or

(b)

water extractable phenols at a concentration of greater than 3% by mass.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations which are also used in Council 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(1), as amended for the fourteenth time by European Parliament and Council Directive 94/60/EC(2), shall have the meaning they bear in that Directive.

(1)

OJ No. L262, 27.9.1976, p.201.

(2)

OJ No. L365, 31.12.1994, p.1.