WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/406 
14 October 2011  
 (11-5043) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt 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:  mailto: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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Hazardous substances. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending, for the purposes of its adap tation to technical and scientific progress, 
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on 
classification, labelling and packaging of subs tances and mixtures (13 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  The purpose of this draft proposal for a third adaptation to technical 
progress of Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on clas sification, labelling and packaging of 
substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation) is to amend Annex VI to the CLP Regulation 
in order to include updated classifications fo r substances already subject to harmonised 
classification and to include new harmonised cl assifications. The draft legislation concerns 
the following substances:  
Name of substance       CAS RN 
trisodium hexafluoroaluminate     13775-53-6 
trisodium hexafluoroaluminate (cryolite)     15096-52-3 2-ethoxyethanol       110-80-5 Tetrahydrofuran       109-99-9 G/TBT/N/EEC/406 
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  fuberidazole        3878-19-1 
di-tert-butyl peroxide      110-05-4 
tris[2-chloro-1-chloromethyl)ethyl] phosphate   13674-87-8 indium phosphide      22398-80-7 trixylyl phosphate      25155-23-1 tris(nonylphenyl) phos phate     26523-78-4 
diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzo yl)phosphine oxide   75980-60-8 
Hexabromocyclododecane     25637-99-4 1,2,5,6,9,10-hexabromocyc lododecane    3194-55-6 
abamectin (combination of avermectin  B1a and avermectin B1b) 71751-41-2 
avermectin B1a (purity ¡Ý80%)     65195-55-3 acequinocyl       57960-19-7 
4-tert-butylbenzoic acid      98-73-7 
leucomalachite green      129-73-7 Metazachlor       67129-08-2 It should be noted that an additional substan ce could be added (i.e., epoxiconazole, CAS RN: 
133855-98-8) depending on the results of new experimental studies. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and the environment, ensuring the proper functioning of the EU 
internal market.  
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classifi cation, labelling and packaging 
of substances and mixtures, amending and re pealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, 
and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907 /2006 (OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1.): 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 quarter 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a mont h after adoption).Article 
1 shall apply from 1 June 2013. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification.  G/TBT/N/EEC/406 
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  11. Text 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 
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/    
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_3346_00_e.pdf