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Regulation 84 ReviewF1

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of these Regulations,

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how other member States have implemented—

(a)

Council Directive 93/15/EC on the harmonization of the provisions relating to the placing on the market and supervision of explosives for civil uses M1, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th September 2003 M2, Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11th March 2009 M3 and Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25th October 2012 M4 which are implemented by these Regulations; and

(b)

Commission Directive 2008/43/EC of 4th April 2008 setting up, pursuant to Council Directive 93/15/EEC, a system for the identification and traceability of explosives for civil uses M5 as amended by Commission Directive 2012/4/EU M6, which are implemented by these Regulations.

(3)

The report must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations,

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with 1st October 2014.

(5)

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. 15 reg. 49 renumbered as Pt. 15 reg. 84 (20.4.2016) by The Explosives Regulations 2014 (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/315), regs. 1, 9(b) (with regs. 2(1), 15)

Marginal citations

M1

OJ No. L 121, 15.5.1993, p.20.

M2

OJ No. L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1.

M3

OJ No. L 87, 31.3.2009 p. 109.

M4

OJ No. L 316, 14.11.2012, p. 12.

M5

OJ No. L 94, 5.4.2008, p.8.

M6

OJ No. L 50, 23.2.2012, p.18.