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The draft Regulation replaces Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/773 and adapts its content to changes in the relevant international instruments.

This draft Regulation would amend entry 63 to Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.

It would prohibit the use of lead and lead compounds in articles produced from polymers or copolymers of vinyl chloride as well as their placing on the market in articles produced from PVC if the concentration of lead (expressed as metal) is equal to or greater than 0.1% by weight of the PVC material. Time-limited exemptions from this limit are provided for rigid and flexible recycled PVC material and for PVC-silica separators in lead acid batteries.

According to Article 45(1) of the CLP Regulation, Member States' appointed bodies shall receive information from importers and downstream users on the hazardous chemical mixtures they place on the market. Commission Regulation (EU) No 2017/542 amended the CLP Regulation by adding an Annex harmonising the information to be provided relating to emergency health response ("Annex VIII") . Annex VIII was adopted in March 2017 and will become applicable on 1 January 2020. The Commission is proposing an amendment to Annex VIII before its applicability date that would contain uncontentious clarifications of the text, so as to streamline interpretation, improve internal coherence, and mitigate some unintended consequences made apparent only after the adoption of the Annex.

This draft Commission implementing Regulation concerns a modification of the lists of authorized inputs to be used for organic production.

Delegated Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on detailed production rules of organic products laying down additional production rules on different product categories: further details and cultivation practices for production of sprouts by moistening of seeds, feeding of bee colonies, feed for carnivorous aquaculture animals and further detailed conditions for juvenile production.

This draft Commission Implementing Regulation provides that the approval of the active substance thiacloprid is not renewed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. EU Member States shall withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing thiacloprid as active substance. The non-renewal of the approval is based on the first evaluation of the substance for use as a pesticide active substance in the EU under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. The substance was formerly assessed and approved under Directive 91/414/ EEC.

This decision only concerns the placing on the market of this substance and plant protection products containing it. Following non-renewal of approval and the expiry of all grace periods for stocks of products containing this substance, separate action will likely be taken on MRLs and a separate notification will be made in accordance with SPS procedures.

This draft Regulation relates to an update of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) on requirements for safety data sheets (SDS):

• Alignment with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), 6th and 7th revisions, most prominently in Sections 9 (Physical and chemical properties) and 14 (Transport) .

• Alignment with the provisions of Annex VIII (on emergency health response) to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP), in particular in relation to the Unique Formula Identifiers (UFIs) assigned to hazardous mixtures, in Section 1 (Identification) .

• Alignment with the new provisions for nanoform substances, adopted on 3 December 2018 through the revision of REACH Annexes I, III, and VI-XII to REACH (Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1881), in Sections 1 (Identification), 3 (Composition/information on ingredients) and 9 (Physical and chemical properties) .

In addition to the above three main changes, a number of smaller amendments are proposed to the text, related to recent developments in the Commission's approaches to risk management of chemicals, such as on endocrine disruptors.

Application of the amended Annex is deferred to 31 December 2022 to allow stakeholders sufficient time to adapt and achieve compliance.

The enclosed draft implementing act and annexes contain the initiatives to lay down the administrative requirements for certificate templates, information documents, numbering systems, test result sheets and the format of test reports necessary for granting EU and national type approvals under the framework Regulation (EU) 2018/858.

These amendments secure that the type-approval authorities use harmonised templates, markings and presentation of the most relevant test information when granting type-approvals under EU Regulation 2018/858.

The draft Directive adapts to scientific and technical progress the list of materials and components, which are exempt from the prohibition of the use of hexavalent chromiumin materials, and components of vehicles put on the market after 1 July 2003. The draft Directive amends exemption 14 of Annex II to the ELV Directive (Directive 2000/53/EC).

Regulation (EU) 2019/129 introduces, among other amendments, a staggered application of new requirements for the on-board diagnostics (OBD) system and for the requirements and emission limit values applicable to test type I, (tailpipe emissions after cold start), test type IV (evaporative emissions) and test type V (durability testing) . Following this timetable, the environmental step Euro 5 will be applicable in two stages: the first one will be applicable as of 1.1.2020 and the second one as of 1.1.2024.

The enclosed draft implementing act details in the administrative type-approval templates which vehicles are compliant with the first stage, identified as environmental step "Euro 5", of those compliant with the second stage, identified as environmental step "Euro 5+" to facilitate the type-approval process and to allow national authorities their identification.