1.The production, import, placing on the market, use and export of new substances in Part A of Annex II are prohibited. This prohibition does not apply to new substances if they are used as feedstock or for laboratory and analytical uses, to imports for transit through [F1Great Britain, to exports subsequent to imports already exempted] or imports under the temporary storage, customs warehousing or free zone procedure [F2in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018, unless such imports have been declared to a customs procedure, including outward processing, or exported under the provisions of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018, destroyed or abandoned to the exchequer.]
2.The [F3appropriate authority shall, by regulations], if appropriate, include in Part A of Annex II substances that are included in Part B of that Annex that are found to be exported, imported, produced or put on the market in significant quantities and that are found by the Scientific Assessment Panel under the Protocol to have a significant ozone-depleting potential, and shall, if appropriate, determine possible exemptions from paragraph 1.
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3.In the light of relevant scientific information, the [F5appropriate authority shall, by regulations], if appropriate, include in Part B of Annex II any substances that are not controlled substances but that are found by the Scientific Assessment Panel under the Protocol or another recognised authority of equivalent stature to have a significant ozone-depleting potential. F6...
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 24(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(2)(a) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1616, regs. 1(2), 2(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 24(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 24(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in Art. 24(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in Art. 24(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6Words in Art. 24(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 23(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)