Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2003

HL Deb 23 October 2003 vol 653 cc190-1WA

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbots

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why Section 8 of the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/1903)does not require an address, telephone number or other contact point of the "responsible person" to be specified [HL4693]

Lord Sainsbury of Turville

Regulation 2(8) of the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2003 amended Regulation 10(3) of the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000 (SI 2000 No 730) ("the principal regulations") by clarifying the information to be provided on apparatus.

The principal regulations implemented Directive 1999/5/EC on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity. Article 12.4 of that directive requires apparatus to be identified by, in addition to technical markings, "the name of the manufacturer or the person responsible for placing the apparatus on the market". To have included a requirement in the principal regulations for additional information to be specified in respect of the responsible person would have been to go beyond the scope of the directive.