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Ref : EIC 230/6/14
16 March 2016
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 263/2016
European Union (EU)* : Test Methods Pursuant to REACH
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 272/2014 dated 24 March 2014, the European Commission has adopted a Regulation to amend Regulation (EC) No. 440/2008 laying down twenty new/updated test methods pursuant to the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) for the purpose of its adaptation to technical progress. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/266, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0266 &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,
(Miss Anna CHEUNG)
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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