These Regulations are made by the Scottish Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1 of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020. The Regulations are made in order to implement temporary arrangements to facilitate the production and supply of PPE necessary for use during the COVID-19 crisis. These arrangements are similar to the proposals in the European Commission’s Recommendation 2020/403 of 13 March 2020 on conformity assessment and market surveillance procedures within the context of the COVID-19 threat.
Source: HMSO.