G/TBT/N/EU/118  
 
17 June 2013  
  
(13-3135)  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 telephon e 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 langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards Annex XVII (CMR substances)  (6 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation proposes to include in the 
entries 28 to 30 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 the substances listed 
hereafter, in order to restrict their placing on the market or use as substances, 
constituents of other substances or in mixtures for supply to the general public and to impose labelling requirements "restricted to professional users" as they have been the 
subject of new classification as carcinogenic or mutagenic or toxic to reproduction 1A or 
1B, following the adoption of Regulations (EU) No 618/2012 and the anticipated adoption of the 5
th amendment of the CLP Regulation (notified to TBT under reference 
G/TBT/N/EU/87). 
The substances are the following: indi um phosphide; trixylyl phosphate; 4- tert-
butylbenzoic; hydrogen treated naphtha; pitc h, coal tar, high-temp.; epoxiconazole; 
nitrobenzene; dihexyl phthalate; N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone; gallium arsenide; 
ammoniumpentadecafluorooctanoate; perfuluorooctanoic acid and 2-ethylhexyl 10-ethyl-
4,4-dioctyl-7-oxo-8-oxa-3,5-dithia-4-stannatetradecanoate. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The above mentioned substances have been the subject of new harmonised 
classification as carcinogenic or mutagenic or toxic to reproduction 1A or 1B, following 
the adoption of Regulation (EU) No 618 /2012 and the anticipated adoption of 5th 
amendment of the CLP Regulation.  G/TBT/N/EU/118 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and 
of the Council of 18 December 2006 conc erning the Registration, Evaluation, 
Authorization and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p.1) 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2006:396:0001:0849:EN:PDF  
Commission Regulation (EU) No 618/2012 of 10 July 2012 amending, for the purposes of 
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 L 179, 11.07.2012, p.3) 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:179:0003:0010:EN:PDF    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    September 2013 20 days from publication in the Official 
Journal of the EU (The first provisions shall apply from 1 April 2014). 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@e c.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2013/tbt/EEC/13_2270_00_e.pdf