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Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No

Official title

Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards carcinogens, germ cell mutagens or reproductive toxicants subject to restrictions

The European Union notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 19 January 2026. The comment period closed on 20 March 2026.

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Products

Recently classified carcinogens, germ cell mutagens and reproductive toxicants (CMR) of category 1A and 1B as substances on their own, as constituents of other substances or in mixtures that are placed on the market or used for supply to the general public

Notifying member
European Union
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 19 January 2026. Check WTO ePing or the European Union for its current status.
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/EU/1185
Keywords
Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 20 March 2026
Proposed adoption
First quarter of 2026
Proposed entry into force
20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU. For the substances classified by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1222 and the related derogation[s] for nitrous oxide, the date of

How to comment

The comment period closed on 20 March 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/EU/1185; it can take them up with the European Union.

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What the notification says

This draft Commission Regulation aims to include within the scope of entries 28 to 30 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 ('REACH') several substances, with the effect of restricting their placing on the market or use for supply to the general public as substances on their own, as constituents of other substances or in mixtures and to impose the requirement to mark packaging with the label 'restricted to professional users'. This is consequent to the recent harmonised classification of these substances as CMR category 1A or 1B under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, as amended by Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2024/2564 (OJ L, 2024/2564, 30.9.2024, ELI: and (EU) 2025/1222 (OJ L, 2025/1222, 2.4.2025, ELI: This draft Commission Regulation furthermore aims to introduce additivity rules, to align with the European implementation of GHS (CLP). For those substances for which the CLP specifically foresees that additivity rules apply to determine the classification of a mixture, also in the restriction the sum of the concentrations of these individual classified substances would be used to determine whether the concentration limit applicable in the restriction is reached. This draft Commission Regulation also aims to introduce a derogation from entry 30 of Annex XVII to REACH for dinitrogen oxide (also known as nitrous oxide) (EC No…

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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