G/TBT/N/EU/201  
 
17 March 2014  
(14-1646)  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 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 applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided  in addition, where applicable):  Waste 
containing persistent organic pollutants. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants as regards Annexes IV and V 
(3 pages + Annexes 10 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  Amendment of the waste related annexes to Regulation (EC) 
No 850/2004 to add the new persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to the annexes and include the corresponding concentration limits for waste management purposes.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  By Decisions from the Stockholm Convention and the UNECE Protocol, new 
substances have been added to the list of POPs. Therefore, these substances have to be 
added to the Annexes of the POP Regulation, in line with the obligations resulting from 
these international agreements. Furthermore, it establishes maximum concentration limits for polybrominated diphenyl ethers and PFOS in waste.  
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council of 29 April 2004 on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC (OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 7–49) 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:158:0007:0049:EN:PDF    G/TBT/N/EU/201 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    June 2014 The Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication 
in the Official Journal of the European Union. 
It shall apply from six months after the date 
of publication   
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
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_1363_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2014/tbt/EEC/14_1363_01_e.pdf