{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/648",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Information to be provided by manufacturers",
  "text": "1. Without prejudice to Article 45 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, manufacturers placing on the market the substances and/or mixtures covered by this Regulation shall hold at the disposal of the competent authority:\ninformation on one or more results of the tests mentioned in Annex III;\nfor those surfactants failing to pass tests mentioned in Annex III, and for which a request for derogation was made as referred to in Article 5:\n(i)a technical file on results of the tests mentioned in Annex II,\n(ii)a technical file on results of the tests and information mentioned in Annex IV.\n2. Whenever substances and/or mixtures covered by this Regulation are placed on the market, the manufacturer shall be responsible for the correct performance of the relevant tests mentioned above. The manufacturer shall also have available documentation on the testing carried out to demonstrate compliance with this Regulation, and to show that the manufacturer is allowed to benefit from the property rights concerning the test results, other than for those test results already in the public domain.\n3. Manufacturers placing on the market the mixtures covered by this Regulation shall, upon request, make available without delay and free of charge, to any medical personnel, an ingredient datasheet as stipulated in Annex VII C.\nThis is without prejudice to the right of the relevant Ministers to request that such a datasheet be made available to the National Poisons Information Service (‘NPIS’) or such other body to which the relevant Ministers assign the task of providing this information to medical personnel within their respective territories.\nFor the purposes of this Article, ‘the relevant Ministers’ means:\nin England, the Secretary of State;\nin Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\nin Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\nThe information contained in the datasheet shall be kept confidential by the the NPIS or other body assigned under the second subparagraph and by the medical personnel, and shall be used only for medical purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(4)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(4)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(4)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(4)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1617, regs. 1(2), 2(8)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 12(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1 ."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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