. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/390 
27 July 2011  
 (11-3813) 
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 :   
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):  Chemical substances 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Annex XIV of Regula tion (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council on the Registrati on, Evaluation, Authoris ation and Restriction 
of Chemicals (REACH) (8  pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation aims at amending Annex XIV of 
the REACH Regulation. Annex XIV lists th e substances which are subject to the 
authorisation requirement laid down in Title VII of the Regulation. The draft proposes to 
include eight additional substan ces in that Annex, namely d iisobutyl phthalate, diarsenic 
trioxide, diarsenic pentaoxide, lead chromate, lead sulfochromate yellow, lead chromate molybdate sulphate red, tris  (2-chloroethyl) phosphate and 2,4-dinitrotoluene. Once the 
regulation is adopted and enters  into force, the placing on th e market and the use of those 
substances in the EU will only be possible, after the date spec ified for each substance ("sunset 
date"), for those operators who have been granted an authorisation in accordance with Articles 60-64 of REACH, and for those who ha ve submitted an application for authorisation 
before a given date ("latest application date") but a deci sion has not yet been adopted.  G/TBT/N/EEC/390 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
objective of this draft Regulation is to subject eight substances of very high concern to the 
authorisation requirement s laid down in the REACH Regulation. According to Article 55 of 
REACH, the aim of the authorisation provisions is " to ensure the good functioning of the 
internal market while assuring that the risks from substances of ve ry high concern are 
properly controlled and that these substances  are progressively replaced by suitable 
alternative substances or technologies wher e these are economically  and technically viable. " 
8. Relevant documents:  
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council on the 
Registration, Evaluation, Aut horisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (OJ L 396, 
30.12.2006, p. 1) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:396:0001:0849:EN:PDF  
Regulation as last amended by Regu lation (EU) No 494/2011 of 20 May 2011 
(OJ L 134, 21.5.2011, p. 2) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2011:134:0002:0005:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2011:134:0002:0005:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   January 2012 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
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/  
and at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_2495_00_e.pdf