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Ref : EIC 230/6/14

1 February 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 120/2013

European Union (EU) * : Exports and Imports of Dangerous Chemicals

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 596/2012 dated 1 August 2012, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation to amend Annexes I and V of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 689/2008 concerning exports and imports of dangerous chemicals. The concerned chemicals included acetochlor, asulam, chloropicrin, propargite, flufenoxuron, naled, 2-naphthyloxyacetic acid, diphenylamine, propanil, alachlor, aldicarb, endosulfan, dichlorvos, bifenthrin, metam and cyanamide. The Regulation shall apply from 1 April 2013. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) No 73/2013, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:026:0011:0016:EN:PDF

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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Anita WONG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.