Commission Regulation (EC) No 551/2009Show full title

ANNEX I U.K.

“‘ANNEX V LIST OF SURFACTANTS THAT HAVE OBTAINED A DEROGATION

By way of derogation granted in accordance with Articles 4-6 and in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12(2), the following detergent surfactants, which pass the tests stipulated in Annex II, but which fail the tests stipulated in Annex III, may be placed on the market and used subject to the limitations mentioned below.

Name in the IUPAC nomenclature	EC Number	CAS number	Limitations
Alcohols, Guerbet, C16-20, ethoxylated, n-butyl ether (7-8EO)	None (polymer)	147993-59-7	May be used for the following industrial applications until 27 June 2019: bottle washing, cleaning-in-place, metal cleaning,

The “EC number” means the Einecs, ELINCS or NLP number and is the official number of the substance within the European Union.

“Einecs” means the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances. This inventory contains the definitive list of all substances deemed to be on the Community market on 18 September 1981. The Einecs number can be obtained from the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substance(1).

“ELINCS” means the European List of Notified Chemical Substances. The ELINCS number can be obtained from the European List of Notified Substances, as amended(2).

“NLP” means No-Longer Polymer. The term polymer is defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006(3) of the European Parliament and of the Council. The NLP number can be obtained from the list of “No-Longer Polymers”, as amended(4).”

(1)

OJ C 146 A, 15.6.1990, p. 1.

(2)

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006, ISSN 1018-5593 EUR 22543 EN.

(3)

OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1, as corrected by OJ L 136, 29.5.2007, p. 3.

(4)

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007, ISSN 1018-5593 EUR 20853 EN/3.’