This page provides links to the full text of key pieces of chemicals environmental legislation that may affect your business in Scotland. The websites hosting the legislation may list amendments separately.
Chemicals legislation for Scotland covers using, storing, transporting, packaging, labelling and disposing of chemicals and other substances that could harm the environment. It includes what qualifications are required to use certain chemicals and measures to control major accident hazards involving dangerous substances.
If you are setting up an environmental management system (EMS) for your business, you can use this list to start compiling your legal register. Your legal adviser or environmental consultant will be able to tell you if other environmental legislation applies to your specific business.
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Sets out requirements for designing and labelling batteries and accumulators (rechargeable batteries) and battery-powered electrical and electronic equipment, to make it easier to recycle waste batteries.
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Sets out rules on the types of container, packaging and labelling that may be used for transporting dangerous goods by rail, and rules for loading and unloading.
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Sets out rules on the types of container and vehicle that may be used for transporting dangerous goods by road, and rules for loading and unloading.
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Regulates the transport of dangerous goods by road, rail and inland waterways and the use of pressurised cylinders, drums and other equipment.
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Sets outs a new system for the classification, labelling and packaging of hazardous chemicals. Revokes and amends Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002/1689, 2005/2571, 2008/2337.
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Requires manufacturers, importers and users to follow UN criteria for classifying, labelling and packaging hazardous substances and mixtures.
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Bans the import, supply and new use of asbestos. Requires employers to assess risks and limit employees' exposure. Also requires employers to have the correct licence before working with asbestos and to ensure that their employees have proper training.
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Places greater responsibility on users of dangerous substances to prevent accidents and to limit their effect on people and the environment. Users must have an accident prevention policy and an on-site emergency plan.
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Amends 1999/743 with changes to requirements for accident plans and policies.
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Amends 1999/743 to correct errors.
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Amends 2002/2677 by adding new definitions and additional hazardous substances
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Amends 2002/2677 by introducing new exposure limits and amending the duty to review control measures.
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Enforces EU Regulation 648/2004. Introduces requirements for the composition and labelling of detergents. Introduces a ban from 1 January 2015 on sale of domestic laundry cleaning products containing inorganic phosphates.
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Requires that detergents and cleaning products meet minimum levels of biodegradability.
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Deals with identification, registration, phase out and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and other dangerous substances in accordance with waste management licensing regimes.
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Revokes and replaces 304/2003 on the export and import of dangerous substances. Requires chemical importers and exporters to provide details of quantities of chemicals in international trade so the effectiveness of arrangements can be assessed.
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Allows governments to impose new requirements on handling, use, import, export, recovery, recycling, reclaming, destruction and trading of listed substances. Sets out plan to phase out production, trade and use of HCFCs.
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Amends 1005/2009 by banning the use of halons in firefighting equipment except for military and aviation uses.
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Sets out controls on producing and using dangerous pesticides, industrial chemicals and chemical by-products.
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Amends 850/2004 (Annexes IV and V) by adding a further nine polluting substances whose production and use has to be controlled.
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Amends 850/2004 (Annexes I and III) by adding a further nine polluting substances whose production and use has to be controlled.
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Requires manufacturers and importers of chemicals to evaluate and manage risks arising from their use, and prove that chemicals placed on the market are safe.
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Amends 1907/2006 by replacing Annexes IV and V with new versions covering exemptions from the obligation to register substances, mixtures or articles.
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Amends 1907/2006 by setting out a new table of dangerous substances, mixtures and articles with manufacturing, marketing and use restrictions.
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Amends 1907/2006 to change the criteria for compiling safety data sheets from 1 December 2010 for substances and 1June 2015 for mixtures.
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Amends 1907/2006 to change the criteria for compiling safety data sheets from 1 December 2010 for substances and 1June 2015 for mixtures.
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Amends 1907/2006 Annex XIV by adding six substances that are not to be placed on the market or used after a certain date, unless an authorisation has been granted.
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Amends 1907/2006 by adding criteria to Annex XVII for controlling the use of cadmium in plastics, paints, brazing fillers and jewellery.
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Amends 1907/2006 by replacing Annex XIII relating to the identification of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances and very persistent and very bioaccumulative substances.
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Consolidates controls on hazardous substances.
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Bans activities that will cause a significant quantity of a hazardous substance on any site, unless the Health and Safety Executive has been notified.
