WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/64 
18 September 2012  
 (12-5024) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt 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:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
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):  Chemical substances        
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Annex XIV to Regula tion (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council on the Registrati on, Evaluation, Authoris ation and Restriction 
of Chemicals (REACH) (10 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation aims at amending Annex XIV of 
the REACH Regulation. Annex XIV lists th e substances which are subject to the 
authorisation requirement laid down in Title VII of the Regulation. The draft proposes to 
include eight additional substances in that Annex, namely trichlor oethylene, chromium 
trioxide, acids generated from chromium trioxide and their oligomers, sodium dichromate, 
potassium dichromate, ammonium dichromate, potassium chromate and sodium chromate. 
Once the regulation is adopted and enters into force, the placing on the market and the use of 
those substances in the EU will only be possible, after the date specified for each substance ("sunset date"), for those operators who have been granted an authorisation in accordance 
with Articles 60-64 of REACH, and for those who have submitted an application for authorisation before a given date  ("latest applicati on date") but a decision has not yet been 
adopted.  G/TBT/N/EU/64 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The objective of this draft Regulation is to subj ect eight substances of very high concern to 
the authorisation requirements laid down in th e REACH Regulation. Ac cording to Article 55 
of REACH, the aim of the authorisation provisions is "to ensure the good functioning of the 
internal market while assuring that the risks from substances of ve ry high concern are 
properly controlled and that these substances  are progressively replaced by suitable 
alternative substances or technologies where these are economically and technically viable".  
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Auth orisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1). Regulatio n as last amended by Regulation (EU) 
No 412/2012 of 15 May 2012 (OJ L 128, 16.5.2012, p. 1). 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:396:0001:0849:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2012:128:0001:0003:EN:PDF  
The Recommendation of  the European Chemicals Agency of 20 December 2011: 
"http://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/ 13640/3rd_a_xiv_recom mendation_20dec2011_en.p
df" 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    March 2013 
3 days after publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. 
N.B. The "latest applicat ion date" (i.e. date by 
which an application for authorisation must be 
received by the European Chemicals Agency if 
the applicant wishes to continue using the substance or placing it on the market after the "sunset date" and a decision on his application has not yet been taken) shall be between 18 and 
21 months from the date of entry into force 
(depending on the substance).  
The "sunset date" (date from which the use of 
the substance and its pl acing on the market is 
prohibited unless an authorisation has been granted or an application has been submitted 
before the latest applic ation date and a decision 
on the application has not yet been taken) shall be between 36 and 39 mont hs from the date of 
entry into force (depending on the substance).  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification.  G/TBT/N/EU/64 
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  11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_3670_00_e.pdf