G/TBT/N/EU/643  
 
15 February 2019  
(19-0888) 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): Chemical 
substances  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft 
Commission Regulati on amending Annex XIV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, 
Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (6 pages + Annex 5 pages, in English)   
6. Description of conten t: This draft Commission Regulation aims at amending Annex XIV 
of the REACH Regulation. Annex XIV lists the substances which are subject to the 
authorisation requirement laid down in Title VII of the Regulation. The draft proposes to 
include 12 additional substances in that Annex, namely:  
• 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, dihexyl ester, branched and linear;  
• dihexyl phthalate;  
• 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, di -C6-10-alkyl esters; 1,2 -benzenedicarboxylic 
acid, mixed decyl and hexyl and octyl diesters with ≥ 0.3% o f dihexyl phthalate;   
• trixylyl phosphate;  
• sodium perborate, perboric acid, sodium salt;  
• sodium peroxometaborate;  
• 5-sec-butyl-2-(2,4-dimethylcyclohex -3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl -1,3-dioxane  [1], 
5-sec-butyl-2-(4,6-dimethylcyclohex -3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl -1,3-dioxane  [2] 
(covering any of the individual stereoisomers of [1] and [2] or any combination 
thereof) ( 'karanal group '); 
• 2-(2H-benzotriazol -2-yl)-4,6-ditertpentylphenol (UV -328);  G/TBT/N/EU/643  
 
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  • 2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-(5-chlorobenzotriazol -2-yl)phenol (UV -327);  
• 2-(2H-benzotriazol -2-yl)-4-(tert-butyl) -6-(sec-butyl)phenol (UV -350);  
• 2-benzotriazol -2-yl-4,6-di-tert-butylphenol (UV -320);  
• diazene -1,2-dicarboxamide (C,C' -azodi(formamide)) (ADCA).  
Once the regulation is adopte d 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 A rticles 60 -64 of REACH, and for those who have submitted an 
application for authorisation before a given date ("latest application date") but a decision 
has not yet been adopted.  
Furthermore the draft Regulation propose to extend for a limited period of ti me the 
transitional periods of a number of substances, for uses in the production of spare parts 
for the repair of articles or complex products produced before the sunset date and for the 
repair of such articles/complex products.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The objective of this draft Regulation is to subject 12 substances of very high 
concern to the authorisation requirement laid down in the REACH Regulation. According 
to Arti cle 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 very 
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."  
The proposal to extend the transitional period for a number of substances for uses in 
legacy spare parts and repair of articles produced befor e the sunset date aims at allowing 
for the future adoption of measures on simplified applications for authorisation for those 
uses, which are considered necessary in order to avoid the premature obsolescence of 
such articles.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Regul ation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on 
the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) 
(OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1). Regulation as last amended by Commission 
Regulation (EU) 2018/675 of 2 M ay 2018 a mending the Appendices to Annex  XVII 
to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 as regards CMR substances (OJ L 114, 
4.5.2018 , p. 4).  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  October 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  20 days after publication in the Official Jou rnal of 
the European Union  
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_0898_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/EEC/19_0898_01_e.pdf