Export and import of dangerous chemicals (amend. Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92)

The Commission proposed the amendment of Annex 1 to Regulation (EEC) No 2455/92, which enumerated the chemicals that were prohibited or strictly regulated and subject to notification in the Community, adding 15 substances or groups of substances the use of which would henceforth be prohibited or restricted by Community legislation. These substances were as follows: asbestos fibres (amosite, anthopyllite, actinolite and tremolite), pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters, ugilec 121, ugilec 141, DBBT, ethylene oxide, dinoseb and its acetate and salts, binapacryl, capadafol, dicofol containing less than 78% p.p.1 dicofol or more than 1g/kg of DDT and DDT-related compounds. �