On Feb 10, 2017, EU published new Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/227, Adding DecaBDE as entry 67 of Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH), Requirement as below:

Shall not be manufactured or placed on the market as a substance on its own after 2 March 2019

Shall not be used in the production of, or placed on the market in:

※  another substance, as a constituent;

※ a mixture;

※  an article, or any part thereof, in a concentration equal to or greater than 0,1 % by weight, after 2 March 2019.

Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to a substance, constituent of another substance or mixture that is to be used, or is used:

※  in the production of an aircraft before 2 March 2027.

※  in the production of spare parts for either of the following:

◎ an aircraft produced before2 March 2027;

◎ motor vehicles within the scope of Directive 2007/46/EC, agricultural and forestry vehicles within the scope of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council or machinery within the scope of Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, produced before 2 March 2019.

Subparagraph 2(c) shall not apply to any of the following:

※   articles placed on the market before 2 March 2019;

※   aircraft produced in accordance with subparagraph 3(a);

※   spare parts of aircraft, vehicles or machines produced in accordance with subparagraph 3(b);

※  electrical and electronic equipment within the scope of Directive 2011/65/EU.

For the purposes of this entry ‘aircraft’ means one of the following:

※ a civil aircraft produced in accordance with a type certificate issued under Regulation (EU) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council or with a design approval issued under the national regulations of a contracting State of the International Civil Aviation organisation (ICAO), or for which a certificate of airworthiness has been issued by an ICAO contracting State under Annex 8 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation;

※ a military aircraft.

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