. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/86 
3 June 2005 
 (05-2278) 
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 
E-mail:  ec-tbt@cec.eu.int 
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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):    
Products covered include "any vehicle desi gnated as category M1 or N1 defined in 
Annex II A of Directive 70/156/EEC and three-wheeled motor vehicles as defined in Directive 92/61/EEC, but excluding motor tricycles". 
Annex II A of Directive 70/156/EEC, as ame nded by Council Directive 92/53/EEC of 
18 June 1992 (OJ L 225, 10/08/1992 p. 0001-0062), defines category M1 as "vehicles used for the carriage of passengers and comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the 
driver’s seat" and category N1 as "vehicles used for the carriage of goods and having a 
maximum mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes". 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Council 
Decision of […] amending Annex II of Direc tive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament 
and of the Council on end-of-life vehicles (6 pages, in FR, DE, EN, IT, NL, DA, EL, ES, PT, FI, SV, CS, ET, HY, LT, LV, MT, PL, SK, SL) 
6. Description of content:   Article 4 (2) (a) of Directive 2000/53/EC on end of life vehicles 
prohibits the use of cadmium, mercury, lead and hexavalent chromium in vehicle materials 
and components which were put on the market  after 1 July 2003.  Annex II, however, 
contains a list of exemptions from this prohi bition.  The Commission has the responsibility 
to adapt this list of exemptions on a regular  basis according to technical and scientific 
progress. 
Commission Decision 2002/525/EC1 has amended the list of exemptions of Annex II for the 
first time. 
                                                      
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 The current Proposal contains a second review  of the list of exemptions according to 
technical and scientific progress made since 2002. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Due to the close expiry date of certain exem ptions, it is important to amend, as soon as 
possible, Annex II in order to provide the car industry with legal certainty on this issue. 
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2000/53/EC on end of life vehicles and Commission 
Decision 2002/525/EC amending Annex II of this Directive. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }1 July 2005 
10. Final date for comments:    End June 2005 
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 
E-mail:  ec-tbt@cec.eu.int