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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/297/Rev.1 
17 June 2011  
 (11-2994) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION 
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 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 and 
mixtures containing them classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction 
categories 1A and 1B which are sold to the general public. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006  of the European Parliament and of the 
Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Auth orisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) as regards Annex XVII (CMR substances), (63 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  A 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 Chemi cals (REACH) as regards Annex XVII (CMR 
substances) was notified at a draft stage on 28 September 2009 (EEC/297).  This draft 
Commission Regulation concerns the prohibition of the placing on the market of a number of 
substances classified as carcinogenic, mutageni c and toxic for reproduction Cat 1A and 1B, as 
such and in mixtures, for sale to the general public. 
During the legislative procedure the draft has b een revised and is replaced by the present draft 
Commission Regulation.  The amendments concern:  
-  the derogation concerning perborates in dete rgents which is now a time-limited derogation, 
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  -  the deletion of the derogation concer ning some borate compounds in photographic 
applications. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety.   
8. Relevant documents: 
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the Eur opean Parliament and of the Council of 
16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/ EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation 
(EC) No 1907/2006. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:353:SOM:EN:HTML  
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the Eur opean Parliament and of the Council of 
18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Ev aluation, Authorisation and Restriction of 
Chemicals (REACH), establishing a Europ ean Chemicals 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 Direc tive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 
91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:396:SOM:EN:HTML  
Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2009 of  22 June 2009 amending Regulation (EC) 
No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, 
Authorization and Restrictions of Chemicals (REACH) as regards Annex XVII; entries from 28 to 30. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:164:SOM:EN:HTML  
Commission Regulation (EC) No 790/2009 of 10  August 2009 amending, for the purposes of 
its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of 
substances and mixtures 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:235:SOM:EN:HTML    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    First semester 2012 
3 months and 20 days from publication in the 
Official Journal of the EU  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [   ], or address, telephone or fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site address, if available of the other body:    
European Commission, 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point, Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43, E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
and at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_1862_00_e.pdf