Commission Regulation (EC) No 300/2002 of 1 February 2002 amending Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals (Text with EEA relevance)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 300/2002
of 1 February 2002
amending Annex II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 of 23 July 1992 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2247/98(2), and in particular Article 11(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 sets up a system of notification and of information concerning imports from and exports to third countries of certain dangerous chemicals. Some of these chemicals are subject to the international Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
(2) Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 provides for the participation of the Community in the international PIC procedure.
(3) The UNEP/FAO arrangements have been subsumed in the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC), which was signed on 11 September 1998 and which is being applied voluntarily on an interim basis pending its entry into force.
(4) Article 5(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 provides, inter alia, that the information in Annex II to that Regulation is to comprise the list of chemicals subject to the international PIC procedure, a list of the countries participating in the PIC scheme and the PIC decisions of importing countries. It is necessary to give exporters additional information by listing interim decisions of participating importing countries in Annex II.
(5) A number of amendments have been made to the list of chemicals subject to the international PIC procedure and to the PIC decisions of importing countries. Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee set up pursuant to Article 29 of Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances(3), as last amended by Commission Directive 2001/59/EC(4),