The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Regulations 2024

Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2016/425

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

17.  In Article 24 (approved body requirements) of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC(1)—

(a)for paragraph (2) substitute—

(2) A conformity assessment body must have legal personality and must be established in—

(a)the United Kingdom; or

(b)the territory of a party to the CPTPP.; and

(b)after paragraph (2) insert—

(2A) In paragraph (2) “the CPTPP” has the meaning set out in section 1 of the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Act 2024..

(1)

EUR 2016/425, as amended by S.I. 2019/696; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.