
Article 1 
Annex I to Directive 76/769/EEC is hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 
Member States shall adopt and publish the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 29 December 2006. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
They shall apply those measures from 1 January 2010.
When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Strasbourg, 16 November 2005.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES
For the Council
The President
Bach of LUTTERWORTH
ANNEX

The following point is added to Annex I to Directive 76/769/EEC:
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50. Polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)

1. 
CAS No 50-32-8

2. 
CAS No 192-97-2

3. 
CAS No 56-55-3

4. 
CAS No 218-01-9

5. 
CAS No 205-99-2

6. 
CAS No 205-82-3

7. 
CAS No 207-08-9

8. 
CAS No 53-70-3
 
1. 
— more than 1 mg/kg BaP, or
— more than 10 mg/kg of the sum of all listed PAHs.
These limits are regarded as kept, if the polycyclic aromatics (PCA) extract is less than 3 % by mass, as measured by the Institute of Petroleum standard IP346: 1998 (Determination of PCA in unused lubricating base oils and asphaltene free petroleum fractions — Dimethyl sulphoxide extraction refractive index method), provided that compliance with the limit values of BaP and of the listed PAHs, as well as the correlation of the measured values with the PCA extract, is controlled by the manufacturer or importer every six months or after each major operational change, whichever is earlier.

2. 
These limits are regarded as kept, if the vulcanised rubber compounds do not exceed the limit of 0,35 % Bay protons as measured and calculated by ISO 21461 (Rubber vulcanised — Determination of aromaticity of oil in vulcanised rubber compounds).

3. By way of derogation, paragraph 2 shall not apply to retreaded tyres if their tread does not contain extender oils exceeding the limits indicated in paragraph 1.
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