G/TBT/N/EU/529  
 
18 December 2017  
(17-7042) 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 [   ], 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 Regul ation amending Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 on the fees 
and charges payable to the European Chemicals Agency (and its accompanying annex) 
(4 pages + Annex 4 pages, in English)    
6. Description of content: This draft Commission Implementing Regulation revises the fees 
and charges payable to ECHA for the submission of authorisation applications and review 
reports of authorisations.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Article 74(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1907/2006 (REACH) provides that the 
structure and amount of the fees shall take account of the work required by that Regulation 
to be carried out by ECHA. In line with the Article 22(2) of  Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 , a 
review was carried out. The experien ce gained so far by the Agency and its Committees for 
Risk Assessment and for Socio -economic Analysis in assessing applications for authorisation 
has shown that the amount of work involved in such an assessment is driven by the number 
of uses applied for i n one application, rather than the number of applicants having jointly 
submitted the application. Consequently, the fee applicable to a given application should be 
the same, regardless of the number of applicants; no additional fee should be levied for eac h 
additional applicant. The same reasoning applies also to the charges for submission of any 
review report. In addition, modifying the fees and charges accordingly could ease the 
financial burden for smaller operators, such as small and medium -sized enterp rises, when 
applying for authorisation jointly. Furthermore, the additional fees and charges applicable 
per additional use should be only slightly lower than the amount of the basic fee or charge. 
Those additional fees or charges per additional use should therefore be increased.  G/TBT/N/EU/529  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
 Regulation (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)  
http://eur -
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2006R1907:20120605:EN:P
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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 on the fees and charges pay able to the  
European Chemicals Agency pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, 
Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)  
http://eur -
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:107:0006:0025:EN:PDF    
9. Proposed date of adoption: March - April 2018  
Proposed date of entry into force: March - April 2018  
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/  
 
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