Council Regulation (EC) No 1195/2006 of  18 July 2006  amending Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-07-18
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: dangerous substance, environmental protection, environmental standard, organic pollution, public health, waste management

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1195/2006

of 18 July 2006

amending Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
on persistent organic pollutants

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 (1), and in
particular Article 7(4)(a) and Article 14(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Commission conducted a study on the implemen-
tation of waste-related provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 850/2004.

The proposed concentration limits in Annex IV to Regu-
lation (EC) No 850/2004 are considered the most appro-
priate to ensure a high level of protection of human
health and the environment in view of the destruction
or irreversible transformation of the persistent organic
pollutants.

or

of,

and

relevant

containing

analytical methodology

For toxaphene, a mixture of over 670 substances, no
to
agreed
determine the total concentration is available. However,
the above mentioned study did not identify any stocks
contaminated with
consisting
toxaphene in the European Union.
the
In addition,
any persistent
study demonstrated that, whenever
organic pollutant pesticides were detected in wastes,
their concentrations were usually high when compared
with the proposed concentration limits. For the time
the
being,
determination
considered
adequate for the purposes of this Regulation.

the available analytical methodologies for
toxaphene may

be

of

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

The concentration limit for PCDF/PCDD is expressed in
toxic equivalent concentration (‘TEQ’), using the 1998
World Health Organisation toxic equivalency factors
(‘TEFs’). Available data on dioxin-like PCBs are not
sufficient to include these compounds in the TEQ.

Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) is the name of a technical
mixture of various isomers. The effort
to completely
analyse them would be disproportionate. Only alpha-,
relevance.
beta- and gamma-HCH is of
Therefore, the concentration limit exclusively refers to
them. Most commercially available analytical standard
mixtures for the analysis of this compound class only
identify these isomers.

toxicological

Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The Committee provided for in Article 17(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 850/2004 has not delivered an opinion
on the measures laid down in this Regulation, following
its consultation, on 25 January 2006, in accordance with
the procedure laid down in Article 17(2) of that Regu-
lation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 shall be
replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

(1) OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 7. Corrected version in OJ L 229,

29.6.2004, p. 5.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 July 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. KORKEAOJA

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX IV

List of substances subject to waste management provisions set out in article 7

Substance

CAS No

EC No

Concentration limit
referred to in Article
7(4)(a)

Aldrin

Chlordane

Dieldrin

Endrin

Heptachlor

Hexachlorobenzene

Mirex

Toxaphene

309-00-2

57-74-9

60-57-1

72-20-8

76-44-8

118-74-1

2385-85-5

8001-35-2

206-215-8

200-349-0

200-484-5

200-775-7

200-962-3

200-273-9

219-196-6

232-283-3

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)

1336-36-3 and others

215-648-1

DDT (1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-chloro-
phenyl) ethane)

50-29-3

200-024-3

Chlordecone

143-50-0

205-601-3

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and
dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF)

The sum of alpha, beta- and gamma-
HCH

58-89-9, 319-84-6,
319-85-7

206-270-8, 206-271-3
and 200-401-2

Hexabromobiphenyl

36355-01-8

252-994-2

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg (*)

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

15 μg/kg (**)

50 mg/kg

50 mg/kg

(*) Where applicable, the calculation method laid down in European standards EN 12766-1 and EN 12766-2 shall be applied.
(**) The limit is calculated as PCDD and PCDF according to the following toxic equivalency factors (TEFs):

PCDD

2,3,7,8-TeCDD

1,2,3,7,8-PeCDD

1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDD

1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDD

1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDD

1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD

OCDD

PCDF

2,3,7,8-TeCDF

1,2,3,7,8-PeCDF

2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF

1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDF

1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDF

1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDF

2,3,4,6,7,8-HxCDF

1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDF

1,2,3,4,7,8,9-HpCDF

OCDF

TEF

1

1

0,1

0,1

0,1

0,01

0,0001

0,1

0,05

0,5

0,1

0,1

0,1

0,1

0,01

0,01
0,0001’