{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2022/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2022/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1393",
  "legislation_title": "The Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2016/425",
  "text": "(1) Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EC is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 47 (transitional provisions in relation to EU exit) after paragraph 4 insert—\n“5. Subject to paragraph 6, where before 11pm on 31st December 2024—\n(a) PPE has not been placed on the market; and\n(b) a manufacturer has taken any action under the conformity assessment procedure that applies to the PPE in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation 2016/425 (pre-exit)\nthat action has effect as if it had been done under the applicable conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation.\n6. Paragraph 5 does not apply—\n(a) after the expiry of the validity of any certificate issued pursuant to the applicable conformity assessment procedure; and\n(b) in any event, after 31st December 2027.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2016/425, as amended by S.I. 2019/696 and S.I. 2021/1273; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1393/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:21.259435+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."
}