Statutory Instruments
Environmental Protection
Made
29th March 2010
Laid before Parliament
31st March 2010
Coming into force in accordance with Regulation 1(2) and (3)
The Secretary of State is a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in respect of matters relating to the prevention of waste from vehicles and forms of recovery of end-of-life vehicles and their components.
These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for the reference to Annex II to Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on end-of-life vehicles(3) inserted by these Regulations into regulation 6 of the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003(4) to be construed as a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time.
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act (as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act), makes the following Regulations.
1972 c.68, as amended by numerous subsequent Acts; however, the only amendments relevant for the purposes of these Regulations are those introduced by Part 3 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51). Under section 57 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), despite the transfer to Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to implementing obligations under Community law in respect of devolved matters, the function of the Secretary of State in relation to implementing those obligations continues to be exercisable by the Secretary of State as regards Scotland.
OJ No L269, 21.10.2000, p. 42 as amended by Commission Decision 2008/689/EC (OJ No L225, 23.08.2008, p.10).