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26 March 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 246/2013

European Union (EU)* : Amendment to REACH Regulation Concerning Fees and Charges

Further to Commercial Information Circular No 254/2008 dated 30 April 2008, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation to amend Regulation (EC) No 340/2008 concerning the fees and charges on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).  The Regulation shall enter into force on 22 March 2013 but shall not apply to valid submissions pending on that day.  Details are set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 254/2013, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:079:0007:0018:EN:PDF.

ENQUIRIES

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.