The Placing on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations 1993

Placing on the market of explosives

4.—(1) No person shall place any explosives on the market unless—

(a) the explosives satisfy such of the essential safety requirements as apply to those explosives; and

(b) the conformity of the explosives to the requirements of these Regulations has been attested in accordance with regulation 5; and

(c) the CE marking has been affixed to the explosives in accordance with regulation 7.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), explosives shall be treated as satisfying the essential safety requirements if they conform to any relevant national standard.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “national standard” means a standard of a member State—

(a) which transposes a relevant harmonised standard; and

(b) the reference number of which has been published by that member State pursuant to Article 4.1 of the Civil Uses Directive.

(4) For the purpose of this regulation, explosives are placed on the market when they are first supplied or made available to any person with a view to their distribution or use within the Communities or are imported, except with a view to re-export, from outside the Communities, and “place on the market” shall be construed accordingly.