Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 1543 of 2011).

These Regulations enforce Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on substances that deplete the ozone layer (as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 744/2010) which controls the production, placing on the market and use of substances that deplete the ozone layer. The Regulations provide that the Secretary of State is the competent authority for the purposes of the EU Regulation and that breach of the provisions of the EU Regulation specified in Schedule 2 is an offence.