Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “controlled substance or preparation” means a substance or preparation containing one or more of the substances listed in the Schedule to these Regulations;

• “professional and industrial use” includes use on railways, in electric power transmission and telecommunications, for fencing and in harbours and waterways;

• “treated wood” means wood that has been treated with a controlled substance or preparation that contained:

  1. (a)

     benzo-a-pyrene at a concentration of greater than 0.05% by mass; or

  2. (b)

     water extractable phenols at a concentration of greater than 3% by mass.

Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations which are also used in Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations^f1, as amended for the fourteenth time by European Parliament and Council Directive 94/60/EC^f2, shall have the meaning they bear in that Directive.