The Controls on Certain Azo Dyes and Blue Colourant Regulations 2003

Prohibition on the placing on the market and use of “blue colourant”

5.—(1) No person shall supply, offer or agree to supply, expose or possess for supply, or use for colouring textile and leather articles, the “blue colourant” defined in Schedule 2 to these Regulations as a substance or constituent of preparations in concentrations higher than 0.1% by mass.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not prohibit a person from supplying, offering or agreeing to supply, exposing or possessing for supply “blue colourant” placed on the market in a Member State before 30th June 2004.