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Ref : EIC 230/6/14
23 April 2013
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 309/2013
European Union (EU)* : Amendment to Annex XIV of REACH
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 142/2013 dated 15 February 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation to amend Annex XIV of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 on REACH to include certain substances that met the criteria for classification as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) No 348/2013, which can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:108:0001:0005: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.
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