National Environmental (Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides) Regulations 2014. S.I. no. 65/2014.

These Regulations are made under the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency Act, with the aim of: promoting a safe use of hazardous chemicals and pesticides; controlling their import, export and sale; ensuring their environmentally sound management, in order to protect human health and the environment; implementing the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent procedure for hazardous chemicals and pesticides. These Regulations shall apply to: storage, usage and marketing of hazardous chemicals and pesticides; banned chemicals listed in the attached schedules; import and export of substances listed in the attached schedules.
Matters covered by these Regulations include: definition of hazardous chemicals; limitation on their importation, exportation, distribution and storage; labelling of containers; issuance of special transportation permits; classification of hazardous waste and its handling and treatment; Registration of importer and exporter and release of permits; preparation and management of emergency plan and notification of accidents and emergencies; general code of practice for the safe use of pesticides and agrochemicals; offences and penalties; definition of relevant terms, including: agrochemicals; chemicals; environmentally sound management; emergency preparedness; hazardous chemicals and pesticides; restricted chemicals and pesticides.
Attached schedules concern: a list of banned hazardous chemicals and pesticides; a list of restricted chemicals and pesticides; information to be indicated in a chemical safety card; guidelines for hazard and precautionary statements; guidelines for transportation, storage and warehousing of hazardous substances; a list of hazardous waste and hazardous substance waste characteristics; guidelines for labelling and packaging of hazardous wastes.