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Ref. :  EIC 230/2/12

14 November 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1005/2017

European Union (EU)* : Approving five Chemicals as Active Substances for Use in Relevant Biocidal Products

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 642/2017 dated 28 July 2017, the European Commission has adopted five Regulations to approve the following chemicals as active substances for use in relevant biocidal products:

1. propan-1-ol for product-types 1, 2 and 4;
2. L(+) lactic acid for product-types 2, 3 and 4;
3. fludioxonil for product-types 7, 9 and 10; 
4. 2-methylisothiazol-3(2H)-one for product-type 12; and
5. margosa extract, cold-pressed oil of Azadirachta indica seeds without shells extracted with super-critical carbon dioxide for product-type 19.

ENQUIRIES

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

Yours faithfully,

(Charles LO)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, 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.