G/TBT/N/EU/239

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NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6

1. / Notifying Member: European Union
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):
2. / Agency responsible: European Commission
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:
European Commission
EU-TBT Enquiry Point
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43
E-mail:
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
3. / Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:
4. / Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Hazardous substances
5. / Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, and Commission Regulation (EU) No 605/2014 amending for the purposes of introducing hazard and precautionary statements in the Croatian language and its adoption to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (15 pages, in English).
6. / Description of content: The purpose of this draft Regulation for a seventh adaptation to technical progress of Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation) is to amend Annex VI to the CLP Regulation in order to include updated classifications for substances already subject to harmonised classification and to include new harmonised classifications. The draft legislation concerns the following substances:
Name of substance / CAS RN
nitric acid ... % / 7697-37-2
calcium phosphide; tricalcium diphosphide / 1305-99-3
gallium arsenide / 1303-00-0
tributyltin compounds, with the exception of those specified elsewhere in this annex / -
1,2-epoxybutane / 106-88-7
tebuconazole (ISO) / 107534-96-3
isoxaflutole (ISO) / 141112-29-0
nonanoic acid / 112-05-0
imazalil (ISO) / 35554-44-0
dodemorph (ISO) / 1593-77-7
etridiazole (ISO) / 2593-15-9
pyridaben (ISO) / 96489-71-3
potassium (E,E)-hexa-2,4-dienoate / 24634-61-5
gallium arsenide / 1303-00-0
lead / 7439-92-1
phenol, dodecyl-, branched / 121158-58-5
phenol, (tetrapropenyl) derivatives / 74499-35-7
carvone (ISO) / 99-49-0
d-carvone / 2244-16-8
l-carvone / 6485-40-1
tembotrione (ISO) / 335104-84-2
fenoxaprop-P-ethyl (ISO) / 71283-80-2
octanoic acid / 124-07-2
decanoic acid / 334-48-5
1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, dihexyl ester, branched and linear / 68515-50-4
spirotetramat (ISO) / 203313-25-1
dodemorph acetate / 31717-87-0
fenpyroximate (ISO) / 134098-61-6
triflusulfuron-methyl / 126535-15-7
bifenazate (ISO) / 149877-41-8
imidazole / 288-32-4
lenacil (ISO) / 2164-08-1
mandipropamid (ISO) / 374726-62-2
metosulam (ISO / 139528-85-1
dimethenamid-P (ISO) / 163515-14-8
flonicamid (ISO) / 158062-67-0
sulfoxaflor (ISO) / 946578-00-3
The draft proposal also defers the application date of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 605/2014 to 1 January 2016 to allow for a transitional period that is in line with the practice in place for previous adaptations to technical progress.
7. / Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health and the environment, ensuring the proper functioning of the EU internal market.
8. / Relevant documents: Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1.).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF
Commission Regulation (EU) No 605/2014 of 5 June 2014 amending, for the purposes of introducing hazard and precautionary statements in the Croatian language and its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures(OJ L167, 6.6.2014, p.36)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1410277909002&uri=CELEX:32014R0605
9. / Proposed date of adoption: May 2015
Proposed date of entry into force: 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU (about a month after adoption).
10. / Final date for comments: 60 days from notification
11. / Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:
European Commission
EU-TBT Enquiry Point
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43
E-mail:
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/eec/14_4068_00_e.pdf