Article 3 The placing on the market

United Kingdom

When placed on the market, detergents and surfactants for detergents referred to in Article 1 shall conform with the conditions, characteristics and limits laid down in this Regulation and its Annexes F1.... Surfactants that are also active substances within the meaning of F2point (c) of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 528/2012 and that are used as disinfectants are exempt from the provisions of Annexes II, III, IV and VIII of this Regulation provided:

F3(a)

they are included in:

— the GB list of approved active substances referred to in Article 8A of Regulation (EU) 528/2012, or
— the Simplified Active Substance List referred to in Article 24A of Regulation (EU) 528/2012 .

(b)

they are constituents of biocidal products authorised under F4Article 55(1) or (2) of Regulation (EU) 528/2012, or

(c)

they are constituents of biocidal products allowed under the transitional measures F5provided for in Article 89(2) of Regulation (EU) 528/2012.

Instead, such surfactants are deemed to be disinfectants and the detergents of which they are ingredients are subject to the labelling provisions for disinfectants of Annex VII A.

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Manufacturers shall be responsible for the conformity of detergents and/or of surfactants for detergents with the provisions of this Regulation and its Annexes.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 3(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(2)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(2)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Art. 3(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(2)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1617, regs. 1(2), 2(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Words in Art. 3(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Words in Art. 3(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(2)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6: Art. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 7(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on the whole EU Regulation

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1336/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (Text with EEA relevance).
F2: Deleted by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two.