S.I. No. 183/1995 -- European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995.

S.I. No. 183/1995 -- European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995. 1995 183

S.I. No. 183/1995:

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EXPORT AND IMPORT OF CERTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS) (PESTICIDES) (ENFORCEMENT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1995.

I, IVAN YATES, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2455/92 of 23 July 1992¹, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 41/94 of 11 January 1994² and Council Regulation (EC) No. 3135/94 of 15 December 1994³, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of August, 1995.

(3) The European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) Regulations, 1995 and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) Regulations, 1995 and shall be construed together as one.

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations "the Principal Reguations" means the European Communities (Export and Import of Certain Dangerous Chemicals) (Pesticides) (Enforcement) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 135 of 1995 ).

Amendment.

3. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the substitution of the text of Annex I of the First Schedule by the following:

¹O.J. No. L251/13, 29/8/1992.

²O.J. No. L8/1, 12/1/1994.

³O.J. No. L332/1, 22/12/1994.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Annex I

(Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2455/92 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 3135/94)

List of chemicals banned or severely restricted to certain uses by Community legislation owing to their effects on health and the environment

Chemical	CAS No. (a)	EINECS No. (b)	Use category (c)	Use limitation (d)
1. Mercuric oxide	21908-53-2	244-654-7	p	b
2. Mercurous chloride (calomel)	10112-91-1	233-307-5	p	b
3. Other inorganic mercury compounds			p	b
4. Alkyl mercury compounds			p	b
5. Alkoxyalkyl and aryl mercury compounds			p	b
6. Aldrin	309-00-2	206-215-8	p	b
7. Chlordane	57-74-9	200-349-0	p	b
8. Dieldrin	60-57-1	200-484-5	p	b
9. DDT	50-29-3	200-024-3	p	b
10. Endrin	72-20-8	200-775-7	p	b
11. HCH containing less than 99.0% of the gamma isomer	608-73-1	210-168-9	p	b
12. Heptachlor	76-44-8	200-962-3	p	b
13. Hexachlorobenzene	118-74-1	204-273-9	p	b
14. Camphechlor (toxaphene)	8001-35-2	232-283-3	p	b
15. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), except mono and dichlorinated biphenyls	1336-36-3	215-648-1	i	b
16. Polychlorinated terphenyls (PCT)	61788-33-8	262-968-2	i	b
17. Preparations with a PCB or PCT content higher than 0.005% by weight			i	b
18. Tris (2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate	126-72-7	204-799-9	i	sr
19. Tris-aziridinylphosphinoxide	545-55-1	208-892-5	i	sr
20. Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)			i	sr
21. Asbestos fibres Crocidolite	12001-28-4		i	b
Amosite	12172-73-5		i	b
Anthopyllite	77536-67-5		i	b
Actinolite	77536-66-4		i	b
Tremolite	77536-68-6		i	b
22. Nitrofen	1836-75-5	217-406-0	p	b
23. 1,2-Dibromoethane	106-93-4	203-444-5	p	b
24. 1,2-Dichloroethane	107-06-2	203-458-1	p	b
25. Pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters	87-86-5	201-778-6	i	sr
26. Ugilec 121			i	b
27. Ugilec 141	76253-60-6	278-404-3	i	sr
28. DBBT	99688-47-8		i	b
29. Ethylene oxide	75-21-8	200-849-9	p	b
30. Dinoseb, its acetate and salts	88-85-7	201-861-7	p	b
31. Binapacryl	485-31-4	207-612-9	p	b
32. Captafol	2425-06-1	219-363-3	p	b
33. Dicofol containing > 1 g/kg of DDT and DDT related compounds	115-32-2	204-082-0	p	b
34. ( a ) Maleic hydrazide, and its salts, other than its choline, potassium and sodium salts;
( b ) Choline, potassium and sodium salts of maleic hydrazide containing more than 1 mg/kg of free hydrazine expressed on the basis of the acid equivalent	123-33-1	204-619-9	p	b
35. Quintozene containing more than 1 g/kg of hexachlorobenzene or > 10 g/kg of pentachlorobenzene	82-68-8	201-435-0	p	b
36. 2-Naphthylamine	91-59-8	202-080-4	i	sr
37. Benzidine	92-87-5	202-199-1	i	sr
38. 4-Nitrobiphenyl	92-93-3	202-204-7	i	sr
39. 4-A minobiphenyl	92-67-1	202-177-1	i	sr

( a ) CAS = Chemical Abstracts Service.

( b ) EINECS = European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances.

( c ) Use category:

p: plant protection product

i: industrial chemical.

( d ) Use limitation:

sr: severe restriction

b: ban.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 3rd day of July, 1995.

IVAN YATES,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations serve to implement the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No. 3135/94 which extends the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2455/92. In particular the list of chemicals which have been banned or severely restricted to certain uses by Community legislation owing to their effects on health and the environment, is extended.

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