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Ref : EIC 230/2/12

14 May 2010

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 218/2010

European Union (EU)*: Amendment to the Directive on Plastic Materials and Articles Intended to Come into Contact with Foodstuffs

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 532/2009 of 23 October 2009, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Decision removing 2,4,4'-trichloro-2'-hydroxydiphenyl ether from the provisional list of additives of Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs. Details are set out in Commission Decision 2010/169/EU, which can be accessed through the following link: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:075:0025:0026:EN:PDF

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Yours faithfully,




(Miss Peggy LEUNG)
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.

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