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Dangerous chemicals: export and import, Rotterdam Convention provisions

2002/0026(COD)

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Commission Decision 2005/416/EC.

CONTENT: Under the provisions of Regulation 304/2003/EC, the Commission decides on behalf of the Community, whether or not to permit the import into the Community of each chemical subject to the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure under the Rotterdam Convention covering certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade.

It has become necessary to amend previous import decisions in relation to the chemicals aldrin, chlordane, chlordimeform, DDT, dieldrin, dinoseb and its salts and esters, EDB (1,2-dibromoethane), ethylene oxide, fluoracetamide, HCH (mixed isomers), heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, lindane, methamidophos pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) and toxaphene in order to reflect the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004 as well as to take account of regulatory developments in the Community since those decisions were adopted.

The decisions on the import of the chemicals aldrin, chlordane, chlordimeform, DDT, dieldrin, dinoseb and its salts and esters, EDB (1,2-dibromoethane), fluoroacetamide, HCH (mixed isomers), heptachlor, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) first published in PIC Circular V are replaced by the import decisions set out on the forms for importing country responses, hereinafter import response forms, in Annex I to this Decision.

The decisions on the import of hexachlorobenzene, pentachorophenol and its salts and esters, toxaphene and methamidophos as set out in the Annex to Decision 2000/657/EC are replaced by the import decisions set out on the import response forms in Annex II to this Decision.

The decision on the import of the chemical lindane (gamma HCH) as set out in the Annex to Decision 2001/852/EC is replaced by the import decision set out on the import response form in Annex III to this Decision.

The decision on the import of the chemical ethylene oxide as set out in Annex II to Decision 2003/508/EC is replaced by the import decision set out on the import response form in Annex IV to this Decision.