Marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (14th amend. Directive 76/769/EEC)

In its amended proposal, the Commission took over the following amendments: - removal of the provisions that would automatically ban sales to the general public of substances classed as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction purposes (CMT) in category 1 or category 2; - specification of the lists of substances already classed as CMT (category 1 and 2), whose sale to the general public should be banned; - inclusion of the commitment made by the Commission to submit proposals to the Council and the European Parliament concerning the substances that could be classed as CMT (category 1 and 2) in the future; - addition of a special label for CMT substances and preparations reserved for professional users; - extension of the derogation to the bans on CMT substances and preparations to include substances and preparations made from mineral oils; - addition of a new derogation to the bans on CMT substances and preparations for artists' colours; - removal of the derogation to the bans on chlorinated solvents for waste material; - extension of five years for the ban on trichloroethane 1, 1, 1 for domestic use. However, the Commission did not accept, in relation to the ban on chlorinated solvents, the amendment lowering the threshold in preparations. �