. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/52/Add.6 
30 October 2009  
 (09-5418) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
 The following communication, dated 26 October 2009, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of the European Communities
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 The European Communities would like to info rm the Members of th e TBT Committee of the 
draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC)  No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament 
and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation,  Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) as regards Annex XVII (dichloromethane , lamp oils and grill lighter fluids and 
organostannic compounds). 
 
 This draft Commission Regulation incorporates in Annex XVII of REACH the restrictions on the marketing and use of dichloromethane, of lamp oils and grill lighter fluids and of organostannic 
compounds adopted recently under Council Directive 76/769/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administ rative provisions of the Member States relating to 
restrictions on the marketing and use of certa in dangerous substan ces and preparations.  
  These recent restrictions were enacted as  Decision No 455/2009/EC on dichloromethane 
(notified under G/TBT/N/EEC/183), Commission Deci sion 2009/424/EC on lamp oils and grill lighter 
fluids (notified under G/TBT/N/EEC/253), and Commission Decision 2009/425/EC on organostannic 
compounds (notified under G/TBT/N/EEC/244). 
 
 Consequently, the rationale of the notifie d draft Commission Regulation is simply to 
incorporate into Annex XVII of RE ACH the restrictions already pr ovided for by the above-mentioned 
Commission Decisions.  
Relevant documents:  
- Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluati on, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH), establishing a European Chemical s Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and 
repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well 
as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC 
and 2000/21/EC (Corrigendum 29 May 2007) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:136:0003:0280:en:PDF
 
 - Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2009 of 22 June 2009 amending Re gulation (EC) No 
1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, 
Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards Annex XVII  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:164:0007:0031:en:PDF
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  - Decision No 455/2009/EC of the European Par liament and of the Council amending Council 
Directive 76/769/EEC as regards restrictions on the marketing and use of dichloromethane  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:137:0003:0006:EN:PDF
 
 - Commission Decision 2009/424/EC amending, for the purpose of adapting to technical 
progress, Annex I to Council Directive 76/769/EEC as regards restrictions on the marketing and use 
of lamp oils and grill lighter fluids    http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:138:0008:0010:EN:PDF
 
 - Commission Decision 2009/425/EC amending Council Directive 76/769/EEC as regards 
restrictions on the marketing and use of organostannic compounds for the purpose of adapting its 
Annex I to technical progress http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:138:0011:0013:EN:PDF
 
 The text of the draft regulation is available on the EC-TBT website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
  
 
And can also be downloaded here: http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2009/tbt/eec/09_3808_00_e.pdf
 
    
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