Biocidal Products Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 880 of 2001).

These Regulations have effect with a view, first, to enabling applications to be made for agreement at Community level that an active substance can be used in a biocidal product and, secondly, to authorizing the placing on the market and use of biocidal products to which these Regulations apply. No person shall place on the market a new active substance for use in a biocidal product unless an application to a competent authority has been made for inclusion of that new active substance in Annex I, IA or IB of the Directive. No person shall place on the market or use a biocidal product unless that biocidal product has been authorized in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations.