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Ref. : EIC 230/2/12
19 December 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 1176/2017
European Union (EU)* : Approving Two Chemicals as Active Substances for Use in Relevant Biocidal Products
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 1005/2017 dated 14 November 2017, the European Commission has adopted two Regulations to approve the following chemicals as active substances for use in relevant biocidal products:
- imiprothrin for product-type 18; and
- 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazol-3(2H)-one for product-type 6.
Details are set out in the Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/2326 and 2017/2327 respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2326&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2327&from=EN
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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.
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