Commission Directive 2006/81/EC of 23 October 2006 adapting Directive 95/17/EC as regards the non-inclusion of one or more ingredients on the list used for the labelling of cosmetic products and Directive 2005/78/EC as regards the measures to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from engines for use in vehicles, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania
Date: 2006-10-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, EC Directive, EU law - national law, European Commission, Romania, accession to the European Union, air quality, approximation of laws, cosmetic product, labelling, motor vehicle

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/81/EC

of 23 October 2006

adapting Directive 95/17/EC as regards the non-inclusion of one or more ingredients on the list
used for the labelling of cosmetic products and Directive 2005/78/EC as regards the measures to be
taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from engines for use in vehicles, by
reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania, and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Article 1

Directives 95/17/EC and 2005/78/EC are amended as set out in
the Annex.

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular Article 56 thereof,

Article 2

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Pursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where
acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007 require
adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary
adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of
Accession or its Annexes, the necessary adaptations are
to be adopted by the Commission in all cases where the
Commission adopted the original act.

The Final Act of the Conference which drew up the
Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting
Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adap-
tations to acts adopted by the Institutions required by
reason of accession and invited the Council and the
Commission
before
accession, completed and updated where necessary to
take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.

adaptations

adopt

these

to

for

2005/55/EC of

Commission Directives 95/17/EC of 19 June 1995 laying
down detailed rules
the application of Council
Directive 76/768/EEC as regards the non-inclusion of
one or more ingredients on the list used for
the
cosmetic products (1)
and Commission
labelling of
Directive 2005/78/EC of 14 November 2005 imple-
European
menting Directive
Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of
the laws of the Member States relating to the measures to
be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate
pollutants from compression-ignition engines for use in
vehicles, and the emission of gaseous pollutants from
positive ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or
liquefied petroleum gas
and
thereto (2),
amending Annexes
II,
should therefore be amended accordingly,

for use
III,

in vehicles

IV and VI

the

I,

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by the date of
accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union at
the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from the date of accession of
Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the fields covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force subject to, and on the date
of, the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria
and Romania.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 October 2006.

For the Commission

Olli REHN
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 140, 23.6.1995, p. 26.
(2) OJ L 313, 29.11.2005, p. 1.

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ANNEX

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

A. MOTOR VEHICLES

32005 L 0078: Commission Directive 2005/78/EC of 14 November 2005 implementing Directive 2005/55/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the measures
to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from compression-ignition engines for use in
vehicles, and the emission of gaseous pollutants from positive ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or liquefied
petroleum gas for use in vehicles and amending Annexes I, II, III, IV and VI thereto (OJ L 313, 29.11.2005, p. 1), as
amended by:

— 32006 L 0051: Commission Directive 2006/51/EC of 6.6.2006 (OJ L 152, 7.6.2006, p. 11).

In Annex V the following is added to point 1, section 1:

‘34 for Bulgaria’, ‘19 for Romania’

B. COSMETICS

31995 L 0017: Commission Directive 95/17/EC of 19 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of
Council Directive 76/768/EEC as regards the non-inclusion of one or more ingredients on the list used for the labelling of
cosmetic products (OJ L 140, 23.6.1995, p. 26), as amended by:

— 12003 T: Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties — Accession of the Czech
Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic
(OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33).

In the Annex, the following is added in point 2 after ‘25 Slovakia’:

‘26 Bulgaria

27 Romania.’