EN Official Journal of the European Union L 94/39

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 March 2007

on the allocation of quantities of controlled substances allowed for essential uses in the Community in 2007 under Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(notified under document number C(2007) 1285)

(Only the Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish texts are authentic)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/211/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 June 2000 on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1), and in particular Article 3(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Community has already phased out the production and consumption of chlorofluorocarbons, other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons, halons, carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, hydrobromofluorocarbon and bromochloromethane.

(2) Each year the Commission is required to determine essential uses for these controlled substances, the quantities that may be used and the companies that may use them.

(3) Decision IV/25 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, hereinafter ‘the Montreal Protocol’, sets out the criteria used by the Commission for determining any essential uses and authorises the production and consumption necessary to satisfy essential uses of controlled substances in each Party.

(4) Decision XV/8 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol authorises the production and consumption necessary to satisfy essential uses of controlled substances listed in Annexes A, B and C (Group II and III substances) of the Montreal Protocol for laboratory and analytical uses as listed in Annex IV to the report of the Seventh Meeting of the Parties, subject to the conditions set out in Annex II to the report of the Sixth Meeting of the Parties, as well as Decisions VII/11, XI/15 and XV/5 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Decision XVII/10 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol authorises the production and consumption of the controlled substance listed in Annex E of the Montreal Protocol necessary to satisfy laboratory and analytical uses of methyl bromide.

(5) Pursuant to paragraph 3 of Decision XII/2 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on measures to facilitate the transition to chlorofluorocarbon-free Metered-Dose Inhalers (MDIs), all Member States have notified (2) to the United Nations Environment Programme the active ingredients for which chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are no longer essential for the manufacture of CFC-MDIs for placing on the market of the European Community.

(6) Article 4(4)(i)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 prevents CFCs from being used and placed on the market unless they are considered essential under the conditions described in Article 3(1) of that Regulation. These non-essentiality determinations have therefore reduced the demand for CFCs used in MDIs that are placed on the market of the European Community. In addition, Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 prevents CFC-MDI products being imported and placed on the market unless the CFCs in these products are considered essential under the conditions described in Article 3(1).

(7) The Commission has published a Notice (3) on the 22 July 2006 to those companies in the Community of 25 Member States that request consideration by the Commission for the use of controlled substances for essential uses in the Community in 2007 and has received declarations on intended essential uses of controlled substances for 2007.

(8) For the purpose of ensuring that interested companies and operators may continue to benefit in due time from the licensing system, it is appropriate that the present decision shall apply from 1 January 2007.

(9) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee established by Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1. The quantity of controlled substances of Group I (chlorofluorocarbons 11, 12, 113, 114 and 115) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 which may be used for essential medical uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 316 257,00 ODP (4) kilograms.

2. The quantity of controlled substances of Group I (chlorofluorocarbons 11, 12, 113, 114 and 115) and Group II (other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 which may be used for essential laboratory uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 65 900,9 ODP kilograms.

3. The quantity of controlled substances of Group III (halons) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for essential laboratory use in the Community in 2007 shall be 718,7 ODP kilograms.

4. The quantity of controlled substances of Group IV (carbon tetrachloride) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for essential laboratory uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 147 110 436 ODP kilograms.

5. The quantity of controlled substances of Group V (1,1,1-trichloroethane) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for essential laboratory uses in the European Union in 2007 shall be 672,0 ODP kilograms.

6. The quantity of controlled substances of Group VI (methyl bromide) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 150,0 ODP kilograms.

7. The quantity of controlled substances of Group VII (hydrobromofluorocarbons) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for essential laboratory uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 3,52 ODP kilograms.

8. The quantity of controlled substances of group IX (bromochloromethane) subject to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 that may be used for essential laboratory uses in the Community in 2007 shall be 12 048 ODP kilograms.

Article 2

The chlorofluorocarbon metered-dose inhalers listed in Annex I shall not be placed on markets where the Competent Authority has determined chlorofluorocarbons for metered-dose inhalers on those markets to be non-essential.

Article 3

During the period 1 January to 31 December 2007 the following rules shall apply:

1. The allocation of essential medical use quotas for chlorofluorocarbons 11, 12, 113, 114 and 115 shall be to the companies indicated in Annex II.

2. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for chlorofluorocarbons 11, 12, 113, 114 and 115 and other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons shall be to the companies indicated in Annex III.

3. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for halons shall be to the companies indicated in Annex IV.

4. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for carbon tetrachloride shall be to the companies indicated in Annex V.

5. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for 1,1,1-trichloroethane shall be to the companies indicated in Annex VI.

6. The allocation of laboratory and analytical critical use quotas for methyl bromide shall be to the companies indicated in Annex VII.

7. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for hydrobromofluorocarbons shall be to the companies indicated in Annex VIII.

8. The allocation of essential laboratory use quotas for bromochloromethane shall be to the companies indicated in Annex IX.

9. The essential use quotas for chlorofluorocarbons 11, 12, 113, 114 and 115, other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons, carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, hydrobromofluorocarbons and bromochloromethane shall be as set out in Annex X.

Article 4

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2007 and shall expire on 31 December 2007.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the following undertakings:

3M Health Care Ltd 3M House Morley Street Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 1EP United Kingdom

Bespak Europe Ltd North Lynn Industrial Estate Bergen Way, King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 2JJ United Kingdom

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH Binger Straße 173 D-55216 Ingelheim am Rhein

Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA Via Palermo 26/A I-43100 Parma (PR)

Inyx Pharmaceuticals Ltd Astmoor Industrial Estate 9 Arkwright Road Runcorn Cheshire WA7 1NU United Kingdom

IVAX Ltd Unit 301, Waterford Industrial Estate Weterford, Ireland

Laboratorio Aldo Union S.A. Baronesa de Maldá 73 Esplugues de Llobregat E-08950 Barcelona

SICOR SpA Via Terrazzano 77 I-20017 Rho (MI)

Valeas SpA Pharmaceuticals Via Vallisneri, 10 I-20133 Milano (MI)

Valvole Aerosol Research Italiana (VARI) SpA — LINDAL Group Italia Via del Pino, 10 I-23854 Olginate (LC)

Acros Organics bvba Janssen Pharmaceuticalaan 3a B-2440 Geel

Airbus France 316, route de Bayonne F-31300 Toulouse

Bie & Berntsen A-S Transformervej 8 DK-2730 Herlev

Carlo Erba Reactifs-SDS Z.I. de Valdonne, BP 4 F-13124 Peypin

Eras Labo 222, RN 90 F-38330 Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes

Harp International Gellihirion Industrial Estate, Rhondda, Cynon Taff, UK-Pontypridd CF37 5SX

Health Protection Inspectorate-Laboratories Paldiski mnt 81 EE-10617 Tallinn

Honeywell Specialty Chemicals Wunstorfer Straße 40 Postfach 10 02 62 D-30918 Seelze

Institut scientifique de service public (ISSeP) Rue du Chéra, 200 B-4000 Liège

Ineos Fluor Ltd PO Box 13, The Heath Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4QF United Kingdom

LGC Promochem GmbH Mercatorstr. 51 D-46485 Wesel

Mallinckrodt Baker BV Teugseweg 20 7418 AM Deventer Nederland

Mebrom NV Assenedestraat 4 B-9940 Rieme Ertvelde

Merck KgaA Frankfurter Straße 250 D-64271 Darmstadt

Mikro+Polo d.o.o. Zagrebška 22 SI-2000 Maribor

Ministry of Defense Directorate Material RNL Navy P.O. Box 2070 2500 ES The Hague Nederland

Panreac Química S.A. Pol. Ind. Pla de la Bruguera C/ Garraf 2 E-08211 Castellar del Vallès, Barcelona

Sanolabor d.d. Leskoškova 4 SI-1000 Ljubljana

Sigma Aldrich Chimie SARL 80, rue de Luzais L’Isle d’Abeau-Chesnes F-38297 Saint-Quentin-Fallavier

Sigma Aldrich Laborchemikalien Wunstorfer Straße 40 Postfach 10 02 62 D-30918 Seelze

Sigma Aldrich Logistik GmbH Riedstraße 2 D-89555 Steinheim

Tazzetti Fluids Srl Corso Europa, 600/a I-10088 Volpiano (TO)

VWR I.S.A.S. 201, rue Carnot F-94126 Fontenay-sous-Bois

Done at Brussels, 27 March 2007. For the Commission Stavros DIMAS Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 244, 29.9.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) www.unep.org/ozone/Information_for_the_Parties/3Bi_dec12-2-3.asp

(3) OJ C 171, 22.7.2006, p. 27.

(4) Ozone-depleting potential.

ANNEX I Pursuant to paragraph 3 of Decision XII/2 of the Twelfth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on measures to facilitate the transition to chlorofluorocarbon-free metered-dose inhalers (MDIs), the following countries have determined that, due to the presence of suitable non-CFC MDIs, CFCs no longer qualify as ‘essential’ under the Protocol when combined with following active ingredients: Source: www.unep.org/ozone/Information_for_the_Parties/3Bi_dec12-2-3.asp Table 1 Short acting beta agonist bronchodilators Country Salbutamol Terbutaline Fenoterol Orciprenaline Reproterol Carbuterol Hexoprenaline Pirbuterol Clenbuterol Bitolterol Procaterol Austria X X X X X X X X X X X Belgium X X X X X X X X X X X Cyprus X X X X X X X X X X X Czech Republic X X X X X X X X X X X Denmark X Estonia X X X X X X X X X X X Finland X X X X X X X X X X X France X X X X X X X X X X X Germany X X X X X X X X X X X Greece X X X X X X X X X X X Hungary X X X X X X X X X X X Ireland X X X X X X X X X X X Italy X X X X X X X X X X X Latvia X X X X X X X X X X X Lithuania X X X X X X X X X X X Luxembourg X X X X X X X X X X X Malta X X X X X X X X X X X Netherlands X X X X X X X X X X X Poland X Portugal X X X X X X X X X X X Norway X X X X X X X X X X X Slovakia X X X X X X X X X X X Slovenia X X X X X X X X X X X Spain X X X X X X X X X X X Sweden X X X X X X X X X X X United Kingdom X

Table 2 Inhaled steroids Country Beclomethasone Dexamethasone Flunisolide Fluticasone Budesonide Triamcinolone Austria X X X X X X Belgium X X X X X X Cyprus Czech Republic X X X X X X Denmark X X Estonia X X X X X X Finland X X France X X Germany X X X X X X Greece Hungary X X X X X X Ireland X X Italy X X X X X X Latvia X X X X X X Lithuania X X X X X X Luxembourg X X X X X X Malta X X Poland Portugal X X X The Netherlands X X X X X X Norway Slovakia X X X X X X Slovenia X X X X X X Spain X X Sweden X X United Kingdom X

Table 3 Non steroidal anti inflammatories Country Cromoglicic acid Nedrocromil Austria X X Belgium X X Cyprus X X Czech Republic X X Denmark X X Estonia X X Finland X X France X X Germany X X Greece X X Hungary X Ireland Italy X X Latvia X X Lithuania X X Luxembourg X Malta X X Poland Portugal X The Netherlands X X Norway Slovakia X X Slovenia X X Spain X Sweden X X United Kingdom

Table 4 Anticholinergic bronchodilators Country Ipratropium bromide Oxitropium Bromide Austria X X Belgium X X Cyprus X X Czech Republic X X Denmark X X Estonia X X Finland X X France Germany X X Greece X X Hungary X X Ireland X X Italy Latvia X X Lithuania X X Luxembourg X X Malta X X Netherlands X X Poland Portugal X Norway Slovakia X X Slovenia X X Spain X X Sweden X X United Kingdom X X

Table 5 Long acting beta agonist bronchodilators Country Formoterol Salmeterol Austria X X Belgium X X Cyprus X Czech Republic X X Denmark Estonia X X Finland X X France X X Germany X X Greece Hungary X X Ireland X X Italy X X Latvia X X Lithuania X X Luxembourg X X Malta X X Netherlands X Poland Portugal Norway Slovakia X X Slovenia X X Spain X Sweden X X United Kingdom

Table 6 Combinations of active ingredients in a single MDI Country Austria X All products Belgium X All products Cyprus Czech Republic X All products Denmark Estonia Finland X All products France X All products Germany X All products Greece Hungary X All products Ireland Italy Budesonide + Fenoterol Fluticasone + Salmeterol Latvia X All products Lithuania X All products Luxembourg X All products Malta X All products Netherlands Poland Portugal Norway Slovakia X All products Slovenia X All products Spain Sweden X All products United Kingdom

ANNEX II Essential medical uses Quota of controlled substances of Group I that may be used in the production of metered dose inhalers (MDIs) for the treatment of asthma and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPDs) are allocated to: 3 M Health Care Ltd (UK) Bespak Europe Ltd (UK) Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (DE) Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA (IT) Inyx Pharmaceuticals Ltd (UK) Ivax Ltd (IE) Laboratorio Aldo Union SA (ES) SICOR SpA (IT) Valeas SpA Pharmaceuticals (IT) Valvole Aerosol Research Italiana (VARI) SpA — LINDAL Group Italia (IT)

ANNEX III Essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group I and II that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses, are allocated to: Acros Organics bvba (BE) Bie & Berntsen A-S (DK) Carlo Erba Reactifs-SDS (FR) Harp International (UK) Honeywell Specialty Chemicals (DE) Ineos Fluor (UK) LGC Promochem (DE) Mallinckrodt Baker (NL) Merck KGaA (DE) Mikro+Polo d.o.o. (SI) Panreac Química S.A. (ES) Sanolabor d.d. (SI) Sigma Aldrich Chimie (FR) Sigma Aldrich Logistik (DE) Tazzetti Fluids (IT) VWR I.S.A.S. (FR)

ANNEX IV Essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group III that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses are allocated to: Airbus France (FR) Eras Labo (FR) Ineos Fluor (UK) Ministry of Defense (NL) Sigma Aldrich Chimie (FR)

ANNEX V Essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group IV that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses, are allocated to: Acros Organics (BE) Bie & Berntsen A-S (DK) Carlo Erba Reactifs-SDS (FR) Health Protection Inspectorate-Laboratories (EE) Honeywell Specialty Chemicals (DE) Institut scientifique de service public (ISSeP) (BE) Mallinckrodt Baker (NL) Merck KGaA (DE) Mikro+Polo d.o.o. (SI) Panreac Química S.A. (ES) Sanolabor d.d. (SI) Sigma Aldrich Chimie (FR) Sigma Aldrich Laborchemikalien (DE) Sigma Aldrich Logistik (DE)

ANNEX VI Essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group V that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses are allocated to: Acros Organics (BE) Bie & Berntsen A-S (DK) Merck KGaA (DE) Mikro+Polo d.o.o. (SI) Panreac Química S.A. (ES) Sanolabor d.d. (SI) Sigma Aldrich Chimie (FR) Sigma Aldrich Logistik (DE)

ANNEX VII Laboratory and analytical critical uses Quota of controlled substances of Group VI that may be used for laboratory and analytical critical uses are allocated to: Mebrom NV (BE) Sigma Aldrich Logistik (DE)

ANNEX VIII essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group VII that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses are allocated to: Ineos Fluor (UK) Sigma Aldrich Chimie (FR)

ANNEX IX Essential laboratory uses Quota of controlled substances of Group IX that may be used for laboratory and analytical uses are allocated to: Ineos Fluor (UK) Sigma Aldrich Logistik (DE)