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Marketing and Use of Explosive Precursors (Implementing) Regulations, 2021

CLOSED CONSULTATION - CONSULTATION CONCLUDED 


 
From: Ministry for Tourism and Consumer Protection
(
Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority)
​Published: 22 February 2021
Running till: 22 March 2021
​Last Updated: ​8 April 2021

CONSULTATION OUTCOME: FINAL REPORT

Original Consultation


1.        Background​

Regulation (EU) 2019/1148 establishes harmonised rules concerning the making available, introduction, possession and use of substances or mixtures that could be misused for the illicit manufacture of explosives, with a view to limiting the availability of those substances or mixtures to members of the general public
, and with a view to ensuring the appropriate reporting of suspicious transactions throughout the supply chain.

This Regulation is without prejudice to other more stringent provisions of Union law concerning the substances listed in Annexes I and II.

Member States shall ensure that restricted explosives precursors as listed in Annex I shall not be made available to, or introduced, possessed, or used by members of the general public. However, a Member State may maintain or establish a licensing regime allowing certain restricted explosives precursors to be made available to, or to be introduced, possessed, or used by members of the general public at concentrations not higher than the corresponding upper limit values set out in column 3 of the table in Annex I of that same regulation.

Information on Regulation (EU) 2019/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 can be accessed through the following link:

The aim of the proposed regulations is to implement into Maltese law the various provisions of Regulation 2019/1148/EU.

The Regulation that is to be implemented may be accessed through the following link:


The objectives of the regulation being implemented by the draft Legal Notice are:
Establishing harmonised rules concerning the making available, introduction, possession and use of substances or mixtures that could be misused for the illicit manufacture of explosives, with a view to limiting the availability of those substances or mixtures to members of the general public, and with a view to ensuring the appropriate reporting of suspicious transactions throughout the supply chain, without prejudice to other more stringent provisions of Union law concerning the substances listed in Annexes I and II of the regulation.


2.        Consultation Questions

a)    In Malta, as of 1st February, 2021 members of the General Public do not have market access to restricted explosive precursors listed in Annex I of the regulation. Do you agree that the legitimate needs of the members of the general public are met  when using substances listed in Annex I below their limit value?

b)   
Do you think that the public requires a licencing regime for any or all specific substances in Annex I? If so, for what purpose?​

 

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