European Communities (Efficiency Requirements For New Hot Water Boilers Fired With Liquid Or Gaseous Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 72/1995
• Year: 1995

I, MICHAEL LOWRY, Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 93/68/EEC of 22 July, 19931 insofar as it relates to Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May, 19922 hereby make the following Regulations:—
	1 ..	1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Efficiency Requirements for New Hot-Water Boilers fired with Liquid or Gaseous Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995.
(2) These Regulations and the Principal Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Efficiency Requirements for New Hot-Water Boilers fired with Liquid or Gaseous Fuels) Regulations, 1995.
	2 ..	2. In these Regulations— "the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Efficiency Requirements for New Hot-water Boilers fired with Liquid or Gaseous Fuels) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 260 of 1994 ).
	3 ..	3. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by:—
( a ) the deletion of the definition "EC mark"; and
( b ) insertion of the following definition after the definition of "boiler to be installed in the living space":—
"CE marking" means the conformity marking specified in Article 12 (7) of Council Directive 93/68/EEC of 22 July, 1993.
1 OJ No. L. 220, 30,8,93, p.l.
2 OJ No. L. 167, 22,6,92, p.17.
	4 Application of Regulations	4. In the Principal Regulations the term "EC mark" is replaced by "CE marking" in each place where it occurs.
	5 ..	5. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph:—
"(4) ( a ) Subject to subparagraph (b) of this paragraph, the presence of a CE marking on a boiler shall indicate that the boiler in question is presumed to conform to those aspects of other Council Directives which also provide for the affixing of the CE marking to such a boiler.
( b ) Where one or more of these Council Directives allow the manufacturer, during a transitional period, to choose which arrangements to apply, the CE marking shall indicate conformity to the provisions only of those Council Directives, as published in the official Journal of the European Communities, applied by the manufacturer. In each such case, particulars of the Council Directives, or parts thereof, applied, must be given in the documents, notices or instructions required by the Council...