WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/87 
11 January 2013  
 (13-0188) 
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):  Hazardous substances 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending, for the purposes of its adap tation 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 (20 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:  The purpose of this draft proposal for a fifth adaptation to technical 
progress of Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on clas sification, 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 fo r substances already subject to harmonised 
classification and to include new harmonised cl assifications. The draft legislation concerns 
the following substances:  
N a m e  o f  s u b s t a n c e        C A S  R N  
Aluminium phosphide       20859-73-8 
Magnesium phosphide; trimagnesium diphosphide   12057-74-8 Fenamiphos (ISO)       22224-92-6 Aluminium-magnesium-zinc-ca rbonate-hydroxide   169314-88-
9Chloroform; trichloromethane      67-66-3 
1,1',1''-nitrilotripropan-2-ol; tr iisopropanolamine    122-20-3 
Acrolein; prop-2-enal; acrylaldehyde     107-02-8 G/TBT/N/EU/87 
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  Vinyl acetate        108-05-4 
Perestane£        432-790-1* 
Nitrobenzene        98-95-3 Aclonifen (ISO)        74070-46-5 Epoxiconazole        133855-98-8 Reaction mass of N,N'-ethane- 1,2-diylbis(hexanamide) and  
12-hydroxy-N-[2-[(1-oxyhexyl)amin o]ethyl]octadecanamide and  
N,N'-ethane-1,2-diylbis(12-hydro xyoctadecan amide)   432-430-3* 
Pitch, coal tar, high-temp .;pitch;      65996-93-2 
Naphtha (petroleum), hydrodesulphurized heavy;    64742-82-1 Solvent naphtha (petroleum), medium al iph.; Straight run kerosine  64742-88-7 
Stoddard solvent; Low boiling point naphtha - unspecified   8052-41-3 
Gallium arsenide       1303-00-0 
Trichloromethylstannane      993-16-8 2-ethylhexyl 10-ethyl-4-[[2-[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]-2-oxoethyl]thio]- 4-methyl-7-oxo-8-oxa-3,5-dithia-4-s tannatetradecanoate   57583-34-3 
2-ethylhexyl 10-ethyl-4,4-dioctyl-7-oxo-8-oxa-3,5-dithia-4- 
stannatetradecanoate       15571-58-1 
2,4,4-trimethylpentene       25167-70-8 Sulcotrione (ISO); 2-[2-chloro-4- (methylsulfonyl)benzoyl]cyclohexane-1,3-dione    99105-77-8 Bifenthrin (ISO)        82657-04-3 Ammoniumpentadecafluorooc tanoate     3825-26-1 
Perfluorooctanoicacid       335-67-1   
Indoxacarb (ISO) [1]        173584-44-6  Reaction mass of (S)- Indoxacarb and (R)- Indoxacarb 75:25 [2]  144171-61-9 
Dihexyl phthalate       84-75-3 Octadecylamine        124-30-1 
(Z)-octadec-9-enylamine       112-90-3 
Amines, hydrogenated tallow alkyl     61788-45-2 Amines, coco alkyl       61788-46-3 Amines, tallow alkyl       61790-33-8 Flufenoxuron (ISO)       101463-69-8 Polyhexamethylene biguanide hydrochloride    27083-27-8 or  
         32289-58-0 
N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone; 1-ethylpyrrolidin-2-one    2687-91-4  G/TBT/N/EU/87 
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  Amidosulfuron (ISO)       120923-37-7 
Tebufenpyrad ( ISO)       119168-77-3 
Proquinazid (ISO)       189278-12-4 £:  reaction mass of succinic acid, monopersuc cinic acid, dipersuccinic acid, monomethyl 
ester of succinic acid, monomethyl ester of persuccinic acid, dimethyl succinate glutaric acid,  monoperglutaric acid, dipergluta ric acid,  monomethyl ester of  glutaric acid,  monomethyl 
ester of perglutaric acid,  dime thyl glutarate adipic acid,  monoperadipic acid,  diperadipic 
acid, monomethyl ester of adipic acid, monometh yl ester of peradipic acid, dimethyl adipate 
hydrogen peroxide, methanol, water. 
*No CAS number is available, the pr ovided code refers to the EC number 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture 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 classifi cation, labelling and packaging 
of substances and mixtures, amending and re pealing 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/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    2nd quarter 2013 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption). The provisions shall apply from 1 January 2015 for all entries except 'pitch, coal tar, high-temp.; pitch', for which application is from 1 April 
2016.  
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 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/  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2013/TBT/EEC/13_0072_00_e.pdf