[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 15]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR82.116]

[Page 434]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 82--PROTECTION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart E--The Labeling of Products Using Ozone-Depleting Substances
 
Sec. 82.116  Compliance by manufacturers or importers incorporating products manufactured with controlled substances.

    (a) Compliance by manufacturers or importers incorporating products 
manufactured with controlled substances, or importing products 
manufactured with controlled substances. Each manufacturer or importer 
of a product incorporating another product to which Sec. 82.102 (a)(3) 
or (b)(2) applies, that is purchased from another manufacturer or 
supplier, is not required to pass through and incorporate the labeling 
information that accompanies such incorporated product in a warning 
statement accompanying the manufacturer's or importer's finished 
product. Importers of products to which Sec. 82.102 (a)(3) or (b)(2) 
applies are required to apply a label, or to ensure that a label has 
been properly applied at the site of U.S. Customs clearance.
    (b) Reliance on reasonable belief. The importer of a product 
purchased or obtained from a foreign manufacturer or supplier, which 
product may have been manufactured with a controlled substance, may rely 
on the information that it receives with the purchased product, and is 
not required to independently investigate whether the requirements of 
this subpart are applicable to the purchased or obtained product, as 
long as the importer reasonably believes that there was no use of 
controlled substances by the final manufacturer of the product being 
imported.
    (c) Contractual obligations. An importer's contractual relationship 
with its supplier under which the supplier is required to accurately 
label, consistent with the requirements of this subpart, any products 
manufactured with a controlled substance that are supplied to the 
importer, or to certify to the importer whether a product was or was not 
manufactured with a controlled substance is evidence of reasonable 
belief.