The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Article 8 (production, placing on the market and use of controlled substances as process agents)

7.—(1) Article 8 is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 3, in the second subparagraph—

(a) in the first sentence, for “Commission may” substitute “appropriate authority may, by regulations,”;

(b) omit the second sentence.

(3) In paragraph 4, in the first subparagraph—

(a) for “Commission” substitute “appropriate authority”;

(b) omit “in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 25(2),”.

(4) In paragraph 4, in the second subparagraph—

(a) omit “maximum”;

(b) for “the Community shall not exceed 1 083 metric tonnes per year” substitute “any part of the United Kingdom shall not, when added to the amounts that may be used as process agents in the other parts of the United Kingdom, exceed a maximum amount of 134.3 metric tonnes per year”;

(c) in the third subparagraph—

(i) omit “maximum”;

(ii) for “the Community shall not exceed 17 metric tonnes per year” substitute “any part of the United Kingdom shall not, when added to the amounts that may be used as process agents in the other parts of the United Kingdom, exceed a maximum amount of 2.1 metric tonnes per year”.

(5) In paragraph 5, in the first subparagraph—

(a) in the words before point (a), for “Commission shall” substitute “Secretary of State shall, by regulations”;

(b) omit the second subparagraph.