. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/177 
16 January 2008 
 (08-0191) 
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 COMMUNITIES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43 Email: ec-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):   Difenacoum, carbon 
dioxide, propiconazole, tebucon azole and other substances 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Draft Commission Directive amending Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and 
of the Council to include difenacoum as an activ e substance in Annex I thereto (5 pages, in 
English) http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/EEC/08_0093_00_e.pdf
 
Draft Commission Directive amending Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and 
of the Council to include carbon dioxide as an ac tive substance in Annex I thereto (5 pages, 
in English) 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/EEC/08_0093_01_e.pdf  
Draft Commission Directive amending Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and 
of the Council to include propiconazole as an ac tive substance in Annex I thereto (5 pages, 
in English) http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/EEC/08_0093_02_e.pdf
 
Draft Commission Directive amending Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and 
of the Council to include tebucon azole as an active substance in Annex I thereto (5 pages, in 
English) http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/EEC/08_0093_03_e.pdf
 
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  Draft Commission Decision concerning the non-incl usion of certain substances in Annex I, 
IA or IB to Directive 98/8/EC of the Europ ean Parliament and of the Council concerning the 
placing of biocidal products on the market (5 pages, in English). http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/EEC/08_0093_04_e.pdf
 
6. Description of content:   These four draft Commission Directives include difenacoum, 
carbon dioxide, propiconazole and tebuconazole in the European Community positive list of 
active substances, which may be used in biocidal products. 
The draft Commission Decision concerns a list of active substances for which the industry 
had initially notified their intention to subm it information for their risk and efficacy 
assessment - and on this basis they were allowed to remain on the biocides market. However, when the deadline for submission of this information arrived, no dossiers were 
submitted.  Consequently, these substances will not be examined under the 10-year review 
programme established by Article  16(2) of the Biocides Directive 98/8/EC, and a decision 
should now be taken to remove them from the biocides market, after a 12-month phase-out 
period. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of public health and of the envir onment. Harmonisation of the EU market on 
biocidal products. 
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on 
the placing of biocidal products on the market (OJ L 123, 24.4.1998, page 1).  Available in 
all EU languages. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    31 March 2008 
1 April 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days from circulation by the WTO Secretariat 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43 Email:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu
 
The text is available on the EC-TBT Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/