. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/336 
24 June 2010  
 (10-3458) 
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):  Chemicals 
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, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) as regards Annex I (7 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  Annex I of REACH contains the requirements for chemical safety 
reports submitted as part of registrations under REACH. The purpose of this draft 
Commission Regulation is to adapt Annex I to REACH to the criteria for classification and other relevant provisions laid down in Re gulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, 
labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures ("the CLP Regulation").  The CLP 
Regulation harmonises the provisions and crite ria for the classification and labelling of 
substances, mixtures and certain specific articl es within the Community, taking into account 
the classification criteria and labelling rules of the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
High level of protection of human health and the environment and the free circulation of 
goods on the EU internal market.  G/TBT/N/EEC/336 
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  8. Relevant documents:   1. Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and 
of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) (OJ L 396, 30 December 2006, p.1) (notified under reference 
G/TBT/N/EEC/52): 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:396:0001:0849:EN:PDF  
[Corrigendum: OJ L 136, 29 May 2007, p.3.]: 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:136:0003:0280:EN:PDF  
 2. Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification,  labelling and packaging of substances and 
mixtures, amending and repealing Directiv es 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending 
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (OJ L 353, 31 December 2008, p. 1.) (notified under reference G/TBT/N/EEC/163): 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF  
 3. Globally Harmonised System of Classi fication and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) 
   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Early  2011 
20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU (about a month after 
adoption approx).  After entry into force the 
deadline to make changes resulting from the provisions in registrations already submitted before a date falling 1 month after entry into force date is  
30 November 2012 
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 be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/EEC/10_2505_00_e.pdf