
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 is amended as follows:

1.. Annex V is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
2.. Annex VI is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 25 June 2009.
For the Commission
Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President
ANNEX I


‘ANNEX V 
By way of derogation granted in accordance with Articles 4-6 and in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12(2), the following detergent surfactants, which pass the tests stipulated in Annex II, but which fail the tests stipulated in Annex III, may be placed on the market and used subject to the limitations mentioned below.

Name in the IUPAC nomenclature EC Number CAS number Limitations
Alcohols, Guerbet, C16-20, ethoxylated, n-butyl ether (7-8EO) None (polymer) 147993-59-7 May be used for the following industrial applications until 27 June 2019:
— bottle washing,
— cleaning-in-place,
— metal cleaning,
The “EC number” means the Einecs, ELINCS or NLP number and is the official number of the substance within the European Union.

“Einecs” means the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances. This inventory contains the definitive list of all substances deemed to be on the Community market on 18 September 1981. The Einecs number can be obtained from the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substance.

“ELINCS” means the European List of Notified Chemical Substances. The ELINCS number can be obtained from the European List of Notified Substances, as amended.

“NLP” means No-Longer Polymer. The term polymer is defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The NLP number can be obtained from the list of “No-Longer Polymers”, as amended.


ANNEX II


ANNEX VI 
The following detergent surfactants have been identified as not complying with the provisions of this Regulation:

Name in the IUPAC nomenclature EC Number CAS number Limitations
   
The “EC number” means the Einecs, ELINCS or NLP number and is the official number of the substance within the European Union.

