European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 503 of 2003).

The purpose of these Regulations is to amend Schedules 1 and 3 to the principal Regulations, 2003 implement specified EC legislation. The Regulations: (i) place further restrictions in relation to the marketing and use of arsenic-treated wood, place further restrictions on the marketing and use of dangerous substances by prohibiting the use of azodyes (blue colourant) for colouring textile and leather articles, place restrictions on the marketing and use of diphenylether, pentabromo derivative and diphenylether, octabromo derivative, and place further restrictions on the marketing and use of two substances newly classified as category 1 carcinogens, nineteen substances newly classified as category 2 carcinogens, five substances newly classified as category 2 mutagens, one substance newly classified as category 1 toxic for reproduction and sixteen substances newly classified as category 2 toxic for reproduction.