. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/335 
24 June 2010  
 (10-3459) 
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 XIII (9 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  The Regulation amends the criteria for the identification of 
persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substan ces (PBT), and very persistent and very 
bioaccumulative substances (vPvB) in Annex XIII of REACH.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
Review of Annex XIII was mandated by Article  138.5 of REACH to assess the adequacy of 
the criteria of identifying PBTs and vPvBs and to amend the Anne x if appropriate. In 
accordance with recital 76 of REACH, Annex XIII should be reviewed taking into account 
the current and any new experience in the iden tification of PBTs/vPvBs and if appropriate 
be amended to ensure a high level of prot ection for human health and the environment.  G/TBT/N/EEC/335 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Au thorisation and Restriction of Chemicals 
(REACH) (OJ L 396, 30 December 2006, p.1)  (notified under reference EEC/52):  
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSer v.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/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:136:0003:0280:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    End of 2010 / early 2011 
3 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU.  After entry into force there is a transitional period of two years for registrants 
to submit registrations (or update already 
submitted registrations) in accordance with the revised criteria 
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_2504_00_e.pdf