G/TBT/N/EU/239  
 
16 September 2014  
(14-5157)  Page: 1/3  
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: 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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Hazardous substances 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/ 2008 of the European Pa rliament and of the 
Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, for the 
purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, and Commission Regulation 
(EU) No 605/2014 amending for the purposes of introducing hazard  and precautionary 
statements in the Croatian language and its adoption 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 (15 pages, in English).     G/TBT/N/EU/239 
 
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  6. Description of content: The purpose of this draft Regulation for a seventh adaptation to 
technical progress of Regulation (EC) 1272/20 08 on classification, 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 for substances already subject to 
harmonised classification and to include new harmonised classifications. The draft legislation concerns the following substances: 
Name of substance CAS RN 
nitric acid ...  % 7697-37-2 calcium phosphide; tricalcium diphosphide 1305-99-3 gallium arsenide 1303-00-0 
tributyltin compounds, with the exception of those specified
elsewhere in this annex       - 
1,2-epoxybutane 106-88-7 
tebuconazole (ISO) 107534-96-3 isoxaflutole (ISO) 141112-29-0 nonanoic acid  112-05-0 imazalil (ISO) 35554-44-0 dodemorph (ISO) 1593-77-7 etridiazole (ISO) 2593-15-9 pyridaben (ISO) 96489-71-3 potassium (E,E)-hexa-2,4-dienoate 24634-61-5 gallium arsenide 1303-00-0 lead 7439-92-1 
phenol, dodecyl-, branched 121158-58-5 phenol, (tetrapropenyl) derivatives 74499-35-7  carvone (ISO) 99-49-0  d-carvone  2244-16-8 l-carvone 6485-40-1 tembotrione (ISO) 335104-84-2 fenoxaprop-P-ethyl (ISO) 71283-80-2 octanoic acid 124-07-2 decanoic acid 334-48-5 
1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, dihexyl ester, branched and linear 68515-50-4 spirotetramat (ISO) 203313-25-1 
dodemorph acetate 31717-87-0 fenpyroximate (ISO)  134098-61-6 triflusulfuron-methyl 126535-15-7 bifenazate (ISO) 149877-41-8 imidazole 288-32-4 lenacil (ISO)  2164-08-1  mandipropamid (ISO) 374726-62-2 metosulam (ISO 139528-85-1 dimethenamid-P (ISO) 163515-14-8 flonicamid (ISO) 158062-67-0 sulfoxaflor (ISO) 946578-00-3 
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  The draft proposal also defers the application date of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 
605/2014 to 1 January 2016 to allow for a transitional period that is in line with the practice in place for previous adaptations to technical progress. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of human health and the environmen t, ensuring the proper functioning of the 
EU internal market.  
8. Relevant documents:  Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and 
packaging of substances and mixtures, amen ding and repealing 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/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF  
Commission Regulation (EU) No 605/2014 of 5 June 2014 amending, for the purposes of 
introducing hazard and precautionary statements in the Croatian language and its 
adaptation to technical and scientific prog ress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures(OJ L167, 6.6.2014, p.36) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?qid=1410277909002&uri=CELEX:32014R0605 
9. Proposed date of adoption: May 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force: 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the 
EU (about a month after adoption).   
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: eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/    
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/     
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2014/tbt/eec/14_4068_00_e.pdf