Commission Regulation (EC) No 1784/2006 of 4 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the use of processing agents
Date: 2006-12-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, dangerous substance, international convention, production quota, stratospheric pollution, trade restriction

5.12.2006

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1784/2006

of 4 December 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council with
regard to the use of processing agents

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 the
third sentence of the sixteenth indent of Article 2 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The ozone-depleting
carbon tetrachloride
substance
(CTC) is listed as a controlled substance in Group IV of
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 and therefore
use restrictions apply under this Regulation.

layer

in its progress

Taking account of new information and technical devel-
opments reported by the Process Agents Task Force of
the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the
report dated October
ozone
2004 (2), the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted
Decision XVII/7 (3) at their 17th Meeting in December
2005. More specifically, Decision XVII/7 adds CTC to
the revised Table A for Decision X/14 as the processing
radio-labelled cyanoco-
agent
balamin which is a medical drug used for the diagnosis
of the likely causes of vitamin B12 deficiency.

the production of

for

the Community
In order

At present, the use of CTC as processing agent for the
production of radio-labelled cyanocobalamin is banned
(EC) No
in
this particular use to be
2037/2000.
abovementioned
allowed,
Decision recently agreed upon under
the Montreal
Protocol, Annex VI of
the Regulation should be
amended.

under Regulation
for

in accordance with the

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab-
lished
by Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No
2037/2000,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 is replaced by the
Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 December 2006.

For the Commission

Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 244, 29.9.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1366/2006 (OJ L 264, 25.9.2006, p. 12).

(2) Report of the Process Agents Task Force, October 2004, p. 17
(http://hq.unep.org/ozone/teap/Reports/PATF/PATF_Report2004.pdf)
in 2005,
list of uses of controlled substances as process

(3) 17th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

Decision XVII/7:
agents (http://hq.unep.org/ozone/Meeting_Documents/mop/
17mop/17mop-11.e.pdf).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX VI

Processes in which controlled substances are used as processing agents as referred to in the sixteenth indent of
Article 2

(a) use of carbon tetrachloride for the elimination of nitrogene trichloride in the production of chlorine and caustic soda;

(b) use of carbon tetrachloride in the recovery of chlorine in tail gas from production of chlorine;

(c) use of carbon tetrachloride in the manufacture of chlorinated rubber;

(d) use of carbon tetrachloride in the manufacture of isobutyl acetophenone (ibruprofen-analgesic);

(e) use of carbon tetrachloride in the manufacture of poly-phenylene-terephtalamide;

(f) use of carbon tetrachloride for the production of radio-labelled cyanocobalamin;

(g) use of CFC-11 in manufacture of fine synthetic polyolefin fibre sheet;

(h) use of CFC-12 in the photochemical synthesis of perfluoropolyetherpolyperoxide precursors of Z-perfluoropolyethers

and difunctional derivatives;

(i) use of CFC-113 in the reduction of perfluoropolyetherpolyperoxide intermediate for production of perfluoropolyether

diesters;

(j) use of CFC-113 in the preparation of perfluoropolyether diols with high functionality;

(k) use of carbon tetrachloride in production of Cyclodime;
(l) use of HCFCs in the processes set out in points (a) to (k) when used to replace CFC or carbon tetrachloride.’