. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/337 
30 June 2010  
 (10-3562) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  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:  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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  Chemical substances.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Annex XIV to Regula tion (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council on the Regi stration, Evaluation, Authorisation and 
Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (9 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulati on amends Annex XIV of the 
REACH regulation, which lists the substances which are subject to the authorisation 
requirements laid down in Title VII.  The draft proposes to include musk xylene, MDA, 
HBCDD, DEHP, BBP and DBP into Annex XIV.   Accordingly, the placing on the market 
and the use of those substances in the EU will only be possible, after the date specified for 
each substance ("sunset date"), for those operato rs who have been granted an authorisation 
in accordance with Articles 60-64 of REAC H and for those who have submitted an 
application for authorisation before a given date  ("latest application date") but a decision 
has not yet been adopted.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
The objective of this draft Regulation is to s ubject six substances of very high concern to 
the authorisation requirements laid down in th e REACH Regulation.  According to Article 
55 of REACH, the aim of the authorisation provisions is "to ensure the good functioning of the internal market while assuring that the ri sks from substances of very high concern are 
properly controlled and that these substances are progressively replaced by suitable 
alternative substances or technologies where th ese are economically and technically viable."G/TBT/N/EEC/337 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Au thorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) (OJ L 396, 30 December 2006, p. 1) (notified under reference 
G/TBGT/N/EEC/52): 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:396:0001:0849:EN:PDF  
Regulation as last amended by Regulation (E U) No 276/2010 of 31 March 2010 (OJ L 86, 
1 April 2010, p. 7) (notified under refe rence G/TBT/N/EEC/52/Add.6 and EEC/Add.7): 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:086:0007:0012:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }December 2010 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [  ], 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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/tbt/eec/10_2523_00_e.pdf