Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/12
28 September 2018
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 885/2018
European Union (EU)* : Marketing and Use of Biocidal Products
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 868/2018 dated 21 September 2018, the European Commission has adopted four Regulations to grant Union authorisation for the biocidal product families Ecolab Iodine PT3 Family, Hypred's iodine based products, Quat-Chem's iodine based products and Prodhynet's iodine based products; and one Regulation to approve cyphenothrin as an existing active substance for use in biocidal products of product-type 18. Details are set out in the Commission Implementation Regulations (EU) 2018/1258, 2018/1261, 2018/1287, 2018/1288 and 2018/1292, which can be accessed through the following links:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1258&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1261&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1287&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1288&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1292&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,
(LAU Lap)
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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