The Making Available on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 366

PART 3 N.I. SUB-PART A: MAKING AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET – OBLIGATIONS OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS, SUB-PART B: CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT, SUB-PART C: NOTIFICATION OF CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BODIES

DISTRIBUTORS N.I.

Requirements which must be satisfied before a distributor makes a civil explosive available on the market N.I.

22.—(1) Before making a civil explosive available on the market, a distributor must verify that—

(a) the civil explosive—

(i) bears the CE marking;

(ii) is accompanied by the required documents;

(iii) is accompanied by instructions and safety information in a language which can be easily understood by end-users in the EEA State in which the civil explosive is to be made available.

(b) the manufacturer has complied with the requirements, where applicable, set out in regulation 10 (Traceability of certain civil explosives excluded from the scope of regulations 4, 5 and 6 of ITOER (NI) 2013) to the extent not already covered by sub-paragraph (a)(ii); and

(c) the importer has complied with the requirements set out in regulation 16 (Information identifying importer) to the extent not already covered by sub-paragraph (a)(ii).

(2) In paragraph (1)(a)(ii), “required documents” means the documents that are required to be provided with the civil explosive pursuant to—

(a) regulation 10(2) and (3) (Traceability of certain civil explosives excluded from the scope of regulations 4, 5 and 6 of ITOER (NI) 2013); and

(b) regulation 16(3) (Information identifying importer).