Directive 2001/41 - Directive 2001/41/EC amending, for the twenty-first time, Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations, as regards substances classified as carcinogens, mutagens or substances toxic to reproduction - Main contents

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Legal instrument	Directive
Number legal act	Directive 2001/41
Original proposal	COM(1999)746
CELEX number i	32001L0041

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Directive 2001/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 June 2001 amending, for the twenty-first time, Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations, as regards substances classified as carcinogens, mutagens or substances toxic to reproduction

Official Journal L 194 , 18/07/2001 P. 0036 - 0037

Directive 2001/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 19 June 2001

amending, for the twenty-first time, Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations, as regards substances classified as carcinogens, mutagens or substances toxic to reproduction

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(2),

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(3),

Whereas:

• (1) 

  Article 14 of the Treaty provides for the establishment of an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured.

• (2) 

  On 29 March 1996 the European Parliament and the Council adopted Decision 646/96/EC adopting an action plan to combat cancer within the framework for action in the field of public health (1996 to 2000)(4).

• (3) 

  In order to improve health protection and consumer safety, substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction, and preparations containing them should not be placed on the market for use by the general public.

• (4) 

  Directive 94/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 1994 amending for the fourteenth time Directive 76/769/EEC(5) establishes, in the form of an Appendix concerning points 29, 30 and 31 of Annex I to Directive 76/769/EEC(6), a list containing substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction in category 1 or 2. Such substances and preparations should not be placed on the market for use by the general public.

• (5) 

  Directive 94/60/EC provides that the Commission will submit to the European Parliament and Council a proposal to extend this list not later than six months after publication of an adaptation to technical progress of Annex I to Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances(7), which contains substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction in category 1 or 2.

• (6) 

  Commission Directive 97/69/EC of 5 December 1997 adapting for the twenty-third time Directive 67/548/EEC, and more particularly Annex I thereto, to technical progress, contains one substance newly classified as carcinogenic in category 2 and Commission Directive 98/73/EC(8) of 18 September 1998 adapting for the twenty-fourth time Directive 67/548/EEC(9), and more particularly Annex 1 thereto, to technical progress, contains one substance newly classified as carcinogenic in category 2 and one substance newly classified as toxic to reproduction in category 2. These substances should be added to the Appendix concerning points 29 and 31 of Annex I to Directive 76/769/EEC.

• (7) 

  The risks and advantages of the substances newly classified, by Directives 97/69/EC and 98/73/EC, as carcinogenic in category 2 or toxic to reproduction in category 2 have been taken into account.

• (8) 

  This Directive applies without prejudice to Community...

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