文档介绍：EN Official Journal of the munities L 4/9
COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2003/2/EC
of 6 January 2003
relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of arsenic (tenth adaptation to technical progress
to Council Directive 76/769/EEC)
(Text withEEA relevance)
MISSION OF THE MUNITIES, landfills it would be advisable to exercise caution by
limiting the use of arsenic-based wood preservation to
those situations where it is absolutely necessary.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
(5) In a further consideration of the health effects of
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Having regard to Council Directive 76/769/EEC of 27 July arsenic ( ) the CSTEE has concluded that the substance is
1976 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and both genotoxic and a well known carcinogen, and that it
administrative provisions of the Member States relating to may be appropriate to consider that no threshold exists
restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous for carcinogenic effect.
substances and preparations (1), as last amended mis-
sion Directive 2002/62/EC (2) and in particular Article 2(a)
thereof, introduced by Council Directive 89/678/EEC (3),
(6) A-treated wood has been classified as hazar-
dous waste pursuant mission Decision 2000/
Whereas: 532/EC of 3 May 2000 replacing Decision 94/3/EC
establishing a list of wastes pursuant to Article 1