SCHEDULE 1Amendment of Titles 1 to 15

PART 2Amendment of Title 2: Registration of substances

12.

(1)

Article 13 is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 2—

(a)

in the second sentence—

(i)

for “The Commission,” substitute “ The Secretary of State, ”;

(ii)

for “Commission Regulation on test methods adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 133(4)” substitute “ Test Methods Regulation ”;

(b)

for the third sentence substitute—

“Amendments to the Test Methods Regulation may be made by regulations made by the Secretary of State. Amendments to the Annexes of this Regulation may be made by regulations made by the Secretary of State. Regulations under this paragraph are to be made by statutory instrument; and a statutory instrument containing regulations under this paragraph is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. The functions of making regulations under this paragraph are subject to the consent requirement in Article 4A.”.

(3)

In paragraph 3, in the first subparagraph—

(a)

in the first sentence—

(i)

for “a Commission Regulation” substitute “ the Test Methods Regulation ”;

(ii)

omit “the Commission or”;

(b)

omit the second sentence.

(4)

In paragraph 4—

(a)

for “Directive 2004/10/EC” substitute “ the Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1999 M1 ”;

(b)

omit “the Commission or”;

(c)

for “Directive 86/609/EC” substitute “ the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 M2 ”.

(5)

At the end insert—

“6.

In this Article “Test Methods Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 440/2008.”.