The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:

(a) in the definition of “the Directive” in regulation 2(1), for the words “as amended” there shall be substituted the words “, (as corrected) and as amended by Commission Directives 92/39/EEC, 93/9/EEC, 95/3/EC and 96/11/EC”;(1)

(b) in regulation 5 (monomers) —

(i) in paragraph (1) —

(A) after the words “the following paragraphs of this regulation” there shall be inserted the words “and regulation 14A”,

(B) in sub-paragraph (a), for the date “1st January 1997” there shall be substituted the date “1st January 2002”, and

(C) in sub-paragraph (b), for the date “31st December 1996” there shall be substituted the date “31st December 2001”;

(ii) in paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6), after the words “the relevant fraction of”(wherever they occur) there shall be added the words “, or section F of,”;

(c) after regulation 14 there shall be inserted the following regulation —

“Manufacture until 1st January l999

14A.   Notwithstanding regulation 5(1),until lst January 1999 a plastic material or article may be manufactured using one or more of the monomers identified by PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name respectively in columns 1, 2, 3 of Section F of Part I of Schedule l, if any such monomer is of good technical quality and is used in accordance with the restrictions (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in column 4 thereof.”;

(d) the Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. and name for each monomer identified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be inserted in Section A of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (monomers authorised without time limit) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that monomer in the column headed “Item” in Schedule l to these Regulations;

(e) the contents of Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Section B of Part 1 of Schedule 1;

(f) in Section D of Part 1 of Schedule l (monomers authorised until 1st April 1996), in Item 16, for the figures “51” and “115” in column 4 (restrictions) there shall be substituted the figures “17” and “58” respectively;

(g) the contents of Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be inserted after Section E of Part 1 of Schedule 1; and

(h) the Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name for each additive identified in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be inserted in Part I of Schedule 3 (additives) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that additive in the column headed “Item” in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.

(1)

Corrigendum in OJ No. L349, 13.12.90, p.26; amending Directives in OJ No. L168, 23.6.92, p.21, OJ No. L90, 14.3.93, p.26, OJ No. L41, 23.2.95, p.44 and OJ No. L61, 12.3.96, p.26.