{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1387",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Products Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“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 ;\n“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 ;\n“enforcement authority” means any local weights and measures authority or the Secretary of State;\n“the EU Construction Products Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 305/2011 and Regulation (EU) 2024/3110;\n“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 ;\n“Regulation (EU) 2024/3110” means Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 laying down harmonised rules for the marketing of construction products and repealing Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, as it has effect in EU law;\n“Regulation (EU) 305/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC, as it has effect in EU law;\n“supply” includes offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“UK(NI) indication” means the marking in the form set out in Schedule 1 to the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.\n(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 in respect of Great Britain as a reference ... to an enforcement authority.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/465, Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(b) (as substituted by The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1359), reg. 1, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (20.7.2022) by The Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/712), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/465, Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(a) (as substituted by The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1359), reg. 1, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (8.1.2026) by The Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1172), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (8.1.2026) by The Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1172), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/465, Sch. 2 para. 3(3) (as substituted by The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1359), reg. 1, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (20.7.2022) by virtue of The Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/712), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of S.I. 2019/465, Sch. 2 para. 3(4) (as substituted by The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1359), reg. 1, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ No L 218, 13.8.2008, p.30."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No L 88, 4.4.2011, p.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1387/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:54.921234+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}