Council Regulation (EC) No 1354/2007 of 15 November 2007 adapting Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-11-15
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Bulgaria, European Chemicals Agency, Romania, administrative formalities, chemical product, environmental risk prevention, marketing standard, product safety, scientific report

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1354/2007

of 15 November 2007

adapting Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), by reason of the
accession of Bulgaria and Romania

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the 2005 Act of Accession, and in particular
Article 56 thereof,

Whereas:

the

acts of

Pursuant to Article 56 of the 2005 Act of Accession,
where
to
institutions
accession require adaptation by reason of accession,
and the necessary adaptations have not been provided
for
the
necessary acts are to be adopted by the Council unless
the Commission adopted the original act.

in the Act of Accession or

adopted prior

its Annexes,

factured or marketed in Bulgaria and Romania before
accession to the European Union to the same conditions
as substances manufactured or marketed in the other
Member States,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 3(20), points (b) and (c) shall be replaced by the
following:

‘(b)

in the
it was manufactured in the Community, or
countries
acceding to the European Union on 1
January 1995, on 1 May 2004 or on 1 January 2007,
but not placed on the market by the manufacturer or
importer, at least once in the 15 years before the entry
into force of this Regulation, provided the manufacturer
or importer has documentary evidence of this;

Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of
the European
Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006
concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation
and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing
a European Chemicals Agency (1), was adopted prior to
the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European
this
Union, and requires adaptation by reason of
accession.

(c) it was placed on the market in the Community, or in the
countries acceding to the European Union on 1 January
1995, on 1 May 2004 or on 1 January 2007, before
entry into force of this Regulation by the manufacturer
or importer and was considered as having been notified
in accordance with the first indent of Article 8(1) of
Directive 67/548/EEC but does not meet the definition
of a polymer as set out in this Regulation, provided the
manufacturer or importer has documentary evidence of
this;’.

(3)

Therefore,
it is appropriate to modify the definition of
phase-in substance so as to subject substances manu-

Article 2

(1) OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 136, 29.5.2007,

p. 3.

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

(1)

(2)

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

Done at Brussels, 15 November 2007.

For the Council
The President

M. de Lurdes RODRIGUES