2001/599/EC: Commission Decision of 13 July 2001 concerning draft national provisions notified by the Kingdom of the Netherlands on limitations on the marketing and use of creosote (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 1911)

• Articles: 2

Article 1

Pursuant to the third subparagraph of Article 95(6) of the Treaty, the period referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 95(6) within which a Decision must be adopted on the envisaged national provisions notified by the Netherlands notified on 25 January 2001 is extended for a further period of six months.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Done at Brussels, 13 July 2001.

For the Commission

Erkki Liikanen

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 201.

(2) OJ L 207, 6.8.1999, p. 18.

(3) OJ L 365, 31.12.1994, p. 1.

(4) OJ L 329, 22.12.1999, p. 25.

(5) Dermal carcinogenicity study of two coal tar products by chronic epicutaneous application in male CD-1 mice (78 weeks), Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research (ITA), Hanover, October 1997.

(6) Opinion on cancer risk to consumers from creosote containing less than 50 ppm benzo-[a]-pyrene and/or from wood treated with such creosote and estimation of respective magnitude expressed at the eighth SCTEE plenary meeting, Brussels, 4 March 1999.

(7) OJ C 120, 24.4.2001, p. 10.

(8) Opinion on creosote - Notification of the Netherlands made under Article 95(5) of the Treaty expressed at the 24th CSTEE plenary meeting, Brussels, 12 June 2001.