The Construction Products Regulations 2013

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Construction Products Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st July 2013.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 2008 Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93(1);

“the 2011 Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC(2);

“enforcement authority” means—

(a)

in England and Wales and Scotland, any local weights and measures authority; and

(b)

in Northern Ireland, any district council;

“local weights and measures authority” means a local weights and measures authority within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985(3);

“supply” includes offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.

(2) A reference in the 2008 Regulation, as it applies to construction products, or the 2011 Regulation to “the market surveillance authorities” shall have effect in relation to the United Kingdom as a reference to the Secretary of State or to an enforcement authority.

(3) Any reference in the 2011 Regulation to “the language or the languages required by the Member State where the product is made available” or to “a language determined by the Member State concerned”, or any similar expression, shall have effect in relation to the United Kingdom as a reference to the English language.

(4) Any other expression used in these Regulations and occurring in the 2011 Regulation shall have the same meaning as it has in that Regulation.

Competent authority

3.—(1) The competent authority for the United Kingdom for the purposes of the 2008 Regulation, as it applies to construction products, and of the 2011 Regulation is—

(a) the Secretary of State or an enforcement authority; and

(b) such person as the Secretary of State thinks fit to authorise from time to time to be a United Kingdom competent authority, or to perform certain functions of a competent authority, in addition to or in substitution for the Secretary of State.

(1)

OJ No L 218, 13.8.2008, p.30.

(2)

OJ No L 88, 4.4.2011, p.5.

(3)

1985 c.72, as amended by Part 4 of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c.43), paragraph 75 of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), and paragraph 144 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39).