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19 October 2018
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 934/2018
European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Annex XVII of REACH
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 443/2018 dated 9 May 2018, the European Commission has adopted two Regulations to amend Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regarding bis(pentabromophenyl) ether and certain substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR), category 1A or 1B. Details are set out in Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/227 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1513 respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0227R(01)&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1513&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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