. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/85 
11 January 2013  
 (13-0139) 
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 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Chemicals. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Implementing Regulation amendi ng Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 on the fees and charges 
payable to the European Chemicals Agency pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the 
European Parliament and of th e Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and 
Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (22 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Implementin g Regulation amends the initial 
Commission Regulation on the fees and charges payable to the European Chemicals Agency 
pursuant to the REACH Regulation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This draft Commission Implementi ng Regulation is the result of an obligatory review of the 
Commission Fee Regulation by 1 January 2013 with  a view to amending it, if appropriate, 
taking into account the costs of the Agency and the related costs of the services provided by 
the competent authorities of Member States. The draft Regulation aims to provide additional 
support to small and medium-sized enterprises (S MEs) by rebalancing th e distribution of fees 
across various company size classes. The draft Regulation therefore provides further reductions in fees and charges for SMEs. Taking into account that fees and charges have not 
been adapted to inflation since 2008 and the annual inflation rate from April 2012, the standard fees and charges are increased by 7.1%  in the registration area and by 6.6% in the 
authorisation area. The draft Regulation also aims  to improve legal clarity of some concepts 
with the appropriate technical modifications, but no substantial am endments of the Fee 
Regulation.  G/TBT/N/EU/85 
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  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) 
"http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ /LexUriServ.do?uri=CON SLEG:2006R1907:20120605:EN:PDF " 
Commission Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 on the f ees and charges payable to the European 
Chemicals Agency pursuant to  Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of  the European Parliament 
and of the Council on the Registration, Eval uation, Authorisation and Restriction of 
Chemicals (REACH).  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:107:0006:0025:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    March 2013 
10. Final date for comments:  45 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/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2013/TBT/EEC/13_0006_00_e.pdf