CELEX: 32010D0153
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-11 00:00:00
Title: 2010/153/: Commission Decision of 11 March 2010 prolonging the validity of Decision 2009/251/EC requiring Member States to ensure that products containing the biocide dimethylfumarate are not placed or made available on the market (notified under document C(2010) 1337) (Text with EEA relevance)

12.3.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 63/21
            
         COMMISSION DECISION
   of 11 March 2010
   prolonging the validity of Decision 2009/251/EC requiring Member States to ensure that products containing the biocide dimethylfumarate are not placed or made available on the market
   (notified under document C(2010) 1337)
   (Text with EEA relevance)
   (2010/153/EU)
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety (1), and in particular Article 13 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Decision 2009/251/EC (2) requires Member States to ensure that products containing the biocide dimethylfumarate (DMF) are not placed or made available on the market.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Decision 2009/251/EC was adopted in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of Directive 2001/95/EC, which restricts the validity of the Decision to a period not exceeding 1 year, but allows it to be confirmed for additional periods none of which shall exceed 1 year.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               In the light of the experience acquired so far and the absence of a permanent measure addressing consumer products containing DMF, it is necessary to prolong the validity of Decision 2009/251/EC for 12 months and to amend it accordingly.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Directive 2001/95/EC,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The text of Article 4 of Decision 2009/251/EC is replaced by the following:
   
      ‘This Decision shall be applicable until 15 March 2011.’
   
   Article 2
   Member States shall take the necessary measures to comply with this Decision by 15 March 2010 at the latest and shall publish those measures. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
   Article 3
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   
      Done at Brussels, 11 March 2010.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         John DALLI
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 11, 15.1.2002, p. 4.
   
      (2)  OJ L 74, 20.3.2009, p. 32.