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

The Commissioner, Mr Matutes, stressed that the Commission's aim was to create a single market with harmonised laws on three dangerous substances classified as carcinogenic and toxic, and to establish a uniformly high level of protection in the Union. The Commission proposed to restrict the use of substances regarded as carcinogenic and toxic as well as of chlorinated solvents. Furthermore the Commission undertook to submit to the Council and to Parliament in accordance with Article 189b of the Treaty any updated revision of Annex 1 on the use of certain dangerous substances. In addition, when the list of dangerous substances was updated, the Commission had undertaken to submit a proposal for a directive on substances newly classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic to reproduction in categories I and II. Parliament consequently adopted the report by Mrs Ursula Schleicher (D). The European Parliament also called on the Council to initiate the conciliation procedure if it intended to depart from the approved text. �