2. In these Regulations–
“the 1990 Act” means the Criminal Justice (International Co–operation) Act 1990(1);
“operator” means any person engaged in the manufacture, processing, trade or distribution of scheduled substances in any member State or involved in other related activities such as the brokering and storage of scheduled substances;
“placing on the market” means any supply to a person in any member State, whether against payment or free of charge, of scheduled substances manufactured in a member State or put into free circulation in any member State; and
“scheduled substance”, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, means any substance specified in Schedule 1 below, including mixtures containing such substances, but excluding medicinal products or other preparations containing scheduled substances in such a way that such substances cannot be easily used or recovered by readily applicable means.