2002/59/EC: Commission Decision of 23 January 2002 concerning draft national provisions notified by the Kingdom of the Netherlands under Article 95(5) of the EC Treaty on limitations on the marketing and use of creosote-treated wood (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 97)

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Article 1

Without prejudice to the obligations arising from Directive 2001/90/EC, the envisaged national provisions relating to the placing on the market and use of creosote-treated wood, which the Kingdom of the Netherlands notified to the Commission by letter dated 23 January 2001, are approved.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Done at Brussels, 23 January 2002.

For the Commission

Erkki Liikanen

Member of the Commission

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

(2) OJ L 283, 27.10.2001, p. 41.

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

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

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

(6) 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.

(7) OJ C 210, 3.8.2001, p. 46.

(8) Opinion on: Justification of the Dutch request for derogation under Article 95(5) of the EC Treaty - provisions of the Directive 94/60/EC concerning creosote expressed at the 27th CSTEE plenary meeting, Brussels 30 October 2001.

(9) OJ L 129, 18.5.1976, p. 23.

(10) European Court of Justice's judgement of 29 September 1999, delivered in case C-232/97 - ECR 1999 I, p. 6385.

(11) OJ L 20, 26.1.1980, p. 43.

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(13) L.L. Ingram et. al, Migration of Creosote and Its Components from Treated Piling Sections in a Marine Environment, Proc. Ann. Meet. Am. Wood Preserv. Assoc. 78, 1982, p. 120. See also footnotes 8 and 18.

(14) bkh consulting engineers, Foundation of the appeal against the EC-directive on creosote, Final report, Delft, 1 July 1995.

(15) See footnote 4.

(16) OJ L 329, 22.12.1999, p. 43.

(17) OJ L 329, 22.12.1999, p. 63.

(18) OJ L 329, 22.12.1999, p. 82.

(19) Centrum voor Stoffen en Risicobeoordeling, CSR Adviesrapport: 08196A01, Creosoot - Milieurisico's ten gevolge van de toepassing van gecreosoteerd hout in contact met water en bodem - Auteurs: M.H.M.M. Monforts, E.W.M. Roex, and J.P. Rila, 5.12.2000 - RIVM (Research for man and environment) Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (National Institute of public health and the environment).

(20) See footnote 14.

(21) G. Grimmer, Study on the Justification in Scientific Terms of Allowing The Netherlands to retain its National Laws on Creosote in Place of Council Directive 94/60/EC. Final report, Biochemisches Institut für Umweltcarcinogene, Großhansdorf (Germany), December 1995.

(22) Recital 102.

(23) See footnote 4.

(24) See footnote 14.

(25) See footnote 21.

(26) See footnotes 14 and 21.