G/TBT/N/EU/649  
 
28 March 2019  
(19-1962) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
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: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu   
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
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):  
Substances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Commission Implementing Regulation on the application of certain registration and data -
sharing provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council after the expiry of the final registration deadline for phase -in substances 
(4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The draft Implementing Regulation provides clarifications 
regarding the calculation of tonnage in registering substances, the applicability of reduced 
REACH registration requirements and the continuing obligatio ns of existing registrants of 
phase -in substances (i.e. substances that were already on the market at the time of the 
adoption of REACH) to jointly update their registration dossiers after 1 June 2018.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of u rgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health and the environment, ensuring the proper 
functioning of the EU internal market.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and the Council of 
18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and 
Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals  
Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation  
(EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council 
Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 
93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p.1) http://eur -
lex.europa.eu/legal -content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32006R1907  G/TBT/N/EU/649  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  3rd Quarter 2019  
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: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu   
The text is available on the EU -TBT Website:  
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/EEC/19_1777_00_e.pdf