. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/149 
25 April 2007 
 (07-1721) 
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 8043  E-mail :   ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
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):   Biocidal products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Commission 
Decision concerning the non-inclusion in Annex I, IA or IB to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council con cerning the placing of biocidal products on the 
market of certain substances to be examined under the 10-year work programme referred to 
in Article 16(2) thereof (5 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   This draft Commission Decision concerns a list of active 
substances for which the industry had initially no tified their intention to submit information 
for their risk and efficacy assessment - and on th is basis they were allowed to remain on the 
biocides market. However, when the deadline for submission of this info rmation arrived, no 
dossiers were submitted.  Consequently, th ese substances will not be examined under the 
10-year review programme established by Artic le 16(2) of the Biocides Directive 98/8/EC, 
and a decision should now be taken to rem ove 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:  
As there has been no forthcoming data to permit the assessment of these chemicals as 
initially expected, their presence on the market as active ingredients of biocidal products 
cannot continue beyond a 12-month phase-out period. G/TBT/N/EEC/149 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on 
the placing of biocidal products on the market (OJ L 123, 24.04.1998, page 1). Available in 
all EU languages. 
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1896/2000 on th e first phase of the programme referred 
to in Article 16(2) of Directive 98/8/EC on bi ocidal products (OJ L 228, 8.9.2000, page 6) 
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2032/2003 on the second phase of the 10-year work 
programme referred to in Article 16(2) of Di rective 98/8/EC of the European Parliament 
and of the Council concerning the placing of bi ocidal products on the market, and amending 
Regulation (EC) No 1896/2000. 
All legislative texts and further information can be found on the Commission's websites at: 
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/biocides/index.htm 
and http://ecb.jrc.it/biocides  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    End of June 2007 
The date of 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 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 8043  E-mail : ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu