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►B COMMISSION DECISION  
of 16 October 2000  
adopting Community import decisions for certain chemicals pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) 
No 2455/92 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals  
(notified under document number C(2000) 2685)  
(Text with EEA relevance)  
(2000/657/EC)  
(OJ L 275, 27.10.2000, p. 44)  
Amended by:  
Official Journal  
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COMMISSION DECISION  
of 16 October 2000  
adopting Community import decisions for certain chemicals 
pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 concerning the 
export and import of certain dangerous chemicals  
(notified under document number C(2000) 2685)  
(Text with EEA relevance)  
(2000/657/EC)  
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,  
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community , 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 of 23 July  
1992 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous 
chemicals (  1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2247/98 (  2 ), 
and in particular Article 5(2) thereof,  
Whereas:  
(1) Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 provides that the Commission is to  
decide for each chemical subject to the Prior Informed Consent 
(PIC) procedure whether or not the Community consents, 
possibly subject to specified conditions, to its import.  
(2) The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the 
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have been appointed 
to provide secretariat services for the operation of the interi m PIC 
procedure established by the Final Act of the Conference of 
Plenipotentiaries on the Convention on the Prior Informed 
Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and 
Pesticides in International Trade, signed at Rotterdam on 
10 September 1998, in particular the Resolution on interim 
arrangements thereof.  
(3) Additional chemicals have been added to the interim PIC 
procedure, as pesticide or pesticide formulation, for which the  
Commission has received information from the interim Secretaria t 
in the form of decision guidance documents.  
(4) The Commission, acting as common designated authority, is 
required to forward decisions on chemicals to the Secretariat o f 
the interim PIC procedure, on behalf of the Community and its 
Member States.  
(5) The interim Secretariat has requested that the participants in  the 
PIC procedure use the specific form for importing country 
response to report on their import decisions.  
(6) The Commission is required, whenever practicable, to make use 
of existing Community procedures and to ensure that the 
responses do not conflict with existing Community legislation. 
However, the Commission also needs to take into consideration 
Member States' bans or severe restrictions, pending a Community  
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( 1 ) OJ L 251, 29.8.1992, p. 13. 
( 2 ) OJ L 282, 20.10.1998, p. 12.
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(7) The substances binapacryl, captafol, hexachlorobenzene, pentac h­
lorophenol and toxaphene are banned or severely restricted at 
Community level, in particular by Council Directive 79/117/EEC 
of 21 December 1978 prohibiting the placing on the market and 
use of plant protection products containing certain active 
substances (  1 ), as last amended by Directive 91/188/EEC (  2 ), or 
by Council Directive 76/769/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the 
approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative 
provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the  
marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and prep­
arations (  3 ), as last amended by Directive 1999/77/EC (  4 ). Accord­
ingly, a final decision on import should be taken for these 
substances.  
(8) The substances 2,4,5-T, chlorobenzilate, lindane, methamidopho s, 
methylparathion, monochrotophos, parathion and phosphamidon 
are subject to Community legislation, and in particular to Coun cil 
Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of 
plant protection products on the market (  5 ), as last amended by 
Directive 2000/50/EC (  6 ), or Directive 98/8/EC of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 concerning 
the placing of biocidal products on the market (  7 ), both providing 
for a transitional period during which the Member States are 
allowed to take national decisions on substances and products 
falling within their scopes, pending a Community decision. 
Accordingly, an interim decision on import should be taken for 
these substances.  
(9) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance 
with the opinion of the Committee set up pursuant to Article 29  
of Council Directive 67/548/EEC (  8 ), 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:  
Sole Article  
The decisions on import concerning the chemical substances 2,4, 5-T, 
binapacryl, captafol, chlorobenzilate, hexachlorobenzene, linda ne, 
methamidophos, methylparathion, monochrotophos, parathion, pent ach­
lorophenol, phosphamidon and toxaphene are hereby adopted as 
reported on the importing country response forms contained in t he 
Annex.  ▼B 
( 1 ) OJ L 33, 8.2.1979, p. 36. 
( 2 ) OJ L 92, 13.4.1991, p. 42. 
( 3 ) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 201. 
( 4 ) OJ L 207, 6.8.1999, p. 18. 
( 5 ) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. 
( 6 ) OJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 39. 
( 7 ) OJ L 123, 24.4.1998, p. 1. 
( 8 ) OJ 196, 16.8.1967, p. 1.
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ANNEX  
RESPONSE FORMS FOR IMPORTING COUNTRY  
The European Community  (Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, 
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, N etherlands, 
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the members of the EEA 
Agreement: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway)  ▼B
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