
Article 1 
The position to be taken on the Union's behalf at the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents shall be to support, in substance, the proposed amendment of Annex I to the Convention including the corrigendum thereto as attached to this Decision.
Article 2 
The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the person(s) empowered to withdraw on behalf of the Union the remaining reservations made pursuant to Decision 98/685/EC subject to the amendment to Annex I to the Convention referred to in Article 1 of this Decision becoming effective pursuant to Article 26(4) of the Convention.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 1 December 2014.
For the Council
The President
B. LORENZIN
The Conference of the Parties,
Recognizing the need to update the categories of substances and mixtures and the named substances and their threshold quantities, as contained in annex I to the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents, for the purposes of introducing the criteria of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (ST/SG/AC.10/30/Rev.4) and of maintaining consistency with the corresponding European Union legislation,
Bearing in mind its decision to undertake a revision of the hazardous substances and their quantities as contained in annex I and its decision 2004/4 on establishing the Working Group on the Development of the Convention,
Acknowledging the proposal to amend annex I, drawn up by the Working Group on the basis of a thorough review,
Amends annex I to the Convention on hazardous substances for the purposes of defining hazardous activities by replacing it with the text set out in the annex to this decision.

ANNEX
Where a substance or mixture named in Part II also falls within one or more categories in Part I, the threshold quantity given in Part II shall be used.For the identification of hazardous activities, Parties shall take into consideration the actual or anticipated hazardous properties and/or quantities of all hazardous substances present or of hazardous substances which it is reasonable to foresee may be generated during loss of control of an activity, including storage activities, within a hazardous activity.
Part I.
Categories of substances and mixtures not specifically named in Part II
Category in accordance with the United Nations Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals Threshold quantity(metric tons)

1. Acute toxic, Category 1, all exposure routes
 20

2. 

 Category 2, all exposure routes
 Category 3, inhalation exposure route
 200

3. Specific Target Organ Toxicity (STOT) — Single Exposure (SE) STOT, Category 1
 200

4. Explosives — unstable explosives or explosives, where the substance, mixture or article falls under Division 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 or 1.6 of Chapter 2.1.2 of the GHS criteria or substances or mixtures having explosive properties according to Test series 2 of Part I of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods: Manual of Tests and Criteria (Manual of Tests and Criteria) and do not belong to the hazard classes Organic peroxides or Self-reactive substances and mixtures
 50

5. Explosives, where the substance, mixture or article falls under Division 1.4 of Chapter 2.1.2 of the GHS
 200

6. Flammable gases, Category 1 or 2
 50

7. Aerosols, Category 1 or 2, containing flammable gases Category 1 or 2 or flammable liquids Category 1
 500 (net)

8. Aerosols, Category 1 or 2, not containing flammable gases Category 1 or 2 nor flammable liquids Category 1
 50 000 (net)

9. Oxidizing gases, category 1
 200

10. 

 Flammable liquids, Category 1, or
 Flammable liquids, Category 2 or 3, maintained at a temperature above their boiling point, or
 Other liquids with a flash point ≤ 60 °C, maintained at a temperature above their boiling point
 50

11. 

 Flammable liquids, Category 2 or 3, where particular processing conditions, such as high pressure or high temperature, may create industrial accident hazards, or
 Other liquids with a flash point ≤ 60 °C where particular processing conditions, such as high pressure or high temperature, may create industrial accident hazards
 200

12. Flammable liquids, Categories 2 or 3, not covered by 10 and 11
 50 000

13. 

 Self-reactive substances and mixtures, Type A or B or
 Organic peroxides, Type A or B
 50

14. 

 Self-reactive substances and mixtures, Type C, D, E or F or
 Organic peroxides, Type C, D, E, or F
 200

15. Pyrophoric liquids and solids, Category 1
 200

16. Oxidizing liquids and solids, Category 1, 2 or 3
 200

17. Hazardous to the aquatic environment, Category Acute 1 or Chronic 1
 200

18. Hazardous to the aquatic environment, Category Chronic 2
 500

19. Substances and mixtures which react violently with water, such as acetyl chloride, titanium tetrachloride
 500

20. Substances and mixtures which in contact with water emit flammable gases, Category 1
 500

21. Substances and mixtures which in contact with water liberate toxic gas (substances and mixtures which in contact with water or damp air, evolve gases classified for acute toxicity in category 1, 2 or 3, such as aluminium phosphide, phosphorus pentasulphide)
 200
Part II.
Named substances
Substance Threshold quantity(metric tons)

1a. Ammonium nitrate
 10 000

1b. Ammonium nitrate
 5 000

1c. Ammonium nitrate
 2 500

1d. Ammonium nitrate
 50

2a. Potassium nitrate
 10 000

2b. Potassium nitrate
 5 000

3. Arsenic pentoxide, arsenic (V) acid and/or salts
 2

4. Arsenic trioxide, arsenious (III) acid and/or salts
 0,1

5. Bromine
 100

6. Chlorine
 25

7. Nickel compounds in inhalable powder form: nickel monoxide, nickel dioxide, nickel sulphide, trinickel disulphide, dinickel trioxide
 1

8. Ethyleneimine
 20

9. Fluorine
 20

10. Formaldehyde (concentration ≥ 90 %)
 50

11. Hydrogen
 50

12. Hydrogen chloride (liquefied gas)
 250

13. Lead alkyls
 50

14. Liquefied flammable gases, Category 1 or 2 (including liquefied petroleum gas) and natural gas
 200

15. Acetylene
 50

16. Ethylene oxide
 50

17. Propylene oxide
 50

18. Methanol
 5 000

19. 4, 4′-Methylene bis (2-chloraniline) and/or salts, in powder form
 0,01

20. Methyl isocyanate
 0,15

21. Oxygen
 2 000

22. Toluene diisocyanate (2,4 -Toluene diisocyanate and 2,6 -Toluene diisocyanate)
 100

23. Carbonyl dichloride (phosgene)
 0,75

24. Arsine (arsenic trihydride)
 1

25. Phosphine (phosphorus trihydride)
 1

26. Sulphur dichloride
 1

27. Sulphur trioxide
 75

28. Polychlorodibenzofurans and polychlorodibenzodioxins (including tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD)), calculated in TCDD equivalent
 0,001

29. 
4-Aminobiphenyl and/or its salts, Benzotrichloride, Benzidine and/or salts, Bis (chloromethyl) ether, Chloromethyl methyl ether, 1,2-Dibromoethane, Diethyl sulphate, Dimethyl sulphate, Dimethylcarbamoyl chloride, 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane, 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine, Dimethylnitrosamine, Hexamethylphosphorictriamide, Hydrazine, 2- Naphthylamine and/or salts, 4-Nitrodiphenyl, and 1,3 Propanesultone
 2

30. 

((a)) Gasolines and naphthas;
((b)) Kerosenes (including jet fuels);
((c)) Gas oils (including diesel fuels, home heating oils and gas oil blending streams);
((d)) Heavy fuel oils;
((e)) Alternative fuels serving the same purposes and with similar properties as regards flammability and environmental hazards as the products referred to in points (a) to (d)
 25 000

31. Anhydrous ammonia
 200

32. Boron trifluoride
 20

33. Hydrogen sulphide
 20

34. Piperidine
 200

35. Bis(2-dimethylaminoethyl) (methyl)amin
 200

36. 3-(2-Ethylhexyloxy)propylamin
 200

37. Mixtures of sodium hypochlorite classified as Aquatic Acute Category 1 [H400] containing < than 5 % active chlorine and not classified under any of the other hazard categories in Part 1 of annex I.
 500

38. Propylamine
 2 000

39. Tert-butyl acrylate
 500

40. 2-Methyl-3-butenenitrile
 2 000

41. Tetrahydro-3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5,-thiadiazine-2-thione (dazomet)
 200

42. Methyl acrylate
 2 000

43. Methylpyridine
 2 000

44. Bromo-3-chloropropane
 2 000
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 1. 
For Aerosols read Aerosols (10)
 2. 
For industrial accident hazards read industrial accident hazards (14)
 3. 
For Methylpyridine (31) read 3-Methylpyridine (31)
 4. 
For chapter 2.4.2 read chapter 2.6.2
