Commission Directive 2006/15/EC of 7 February 2006 establishing a second list of indicative occupational exposure limit values in implementation of Council Directive 98/24/EC and amending Directives 91/322/EEC and 2000/39/EC (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Directive 2006/15/EC
• Articles: 7

Article 1

In implementation of Directive 98/24/EC, a second list of Community indicative occupational exposure limit values is hereby established for the chemical agents listed in the Annex.

Article 2

Member States shall establish national occupational exposure limit values for the chemical agents listed in the Annex, taking into account the Community values.

Article 3

In the Annex to Directive 91/322/EEC the references to the substances nicotine, formic acid, methanol, acetonitrile, nitrobenzene, resorcinol, diethylamine, carbon dioxide, oxalic acid, cyanamide, diphosphorus pentaoxide, diphosphorus pentasulphide, bromine, phosphorus pentachloride, pyrethrum, barium (soluble compounds as Ba), silver (soluble compounds as Ag) and their indicative limit values are deleted.

In the Annex to Directive 2000/39/EC, the reference to the substance chlorobenzene is deleted.

Article 4

1.   Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 18 months after the entry into force at the latest.

They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 5

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 6

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

INDICATIVE OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMIT VALUES

EINECS  ( 1 )

CAS  ( 2 )

Name of agent

Limit values

Notation  ( 3 )

8 hours  ( 4 )

Short term  ( 5 )

mg/m 3

( 6 )

ppm  ( 7 )

mg/m 3

( 6 )

ppm  ( 7 )

200-193-3

54-11-5

Nicotine

0,5

—

—

—

skin

200-579-1

64-18-6

Formic acid

9

5

—

—

—

200-659-6

67-56-1

Methanol

260

200

—

—

skin

200-830-5

75-00-3

Chloroethane

268

100

—

—

—

200-835-2

75-05-8

Acetonitrile

70

40

—

—

skin

201-142-8

78-78-4

Isopentane

3 000

1 000

—

—

—

202-716-0

98-95-3

Nitrobenzene

1

0,2

—

—

skin

203-585-2

108-46-3

Resorcinol

45

10

—

—

skin

203-625-9

108-88-3

Toluene

192

50

384

100

skin

203-628-5

108-90-7

Monochlorobenzene

23

5

70

15

—

203-692-4

109-66-0

Pentane

3 000

1 000

—

—

—

203-716-3

109-89-7

Diethylamine

15

5

30

10

—

203-777-6

110-54-3

n-Hexane

72

20

—

—

—

203-806-2

110-82-7

Cyclohexane

700

200

—

—

—

203-815-1

110-91-8

Morpholine

36

10

72

20

—

203-906-6

111-77-3

2-(2-Methoxyethoxy)ethanol

50,1

10

—

—

skin

203-961-6

112-34-5

2-(2-Butoxyethoxy)ethanol

67,5

10

101,2

15

—

204-696-9

124-38-9

Carbon dioxide

9 000

5 000

—

—

—

205-483-3

141-43-5

2-Aminoethanol

2,5

1

7,6

3

skin

205-634-3

144-62-7

Oxalic acid

1

—

—

—

—

206-992-3

420-04-2

Cyanamide

1

0,58

—

—

skin

207-343-7

463-82-1

Neopentane

3 000

1 000

—

—

—

215-236-1

1314-56-3

Diphosphorus pentaoxide

1

—

—

—

—

215-242-4

1314-80-3

Diphosphorus pentasulphide

1

—

—

—

—

231-131-3

Silver (soluble compounds as Ag)

0,01

—

—

—

—

Barium (soluble compounds as Ba)

0,5

—

—

—

—

Chromium Metal, Inorganic Chromium (II) Compounds and Inorganic Chromium (III) Compounds (insoluble)

2

—

—

—

—

231-714-2

7697-37-2

Nitric acid

—

—

2,6

1

—

231-778-1

7726-95-6

Bromine

0,7

0,1

—

—

—

231-959-5

7782-50-5

Chlorine

—

—

1,5

0,5

—

232-260-8

7803-51-2

Phosphine

0,14

0,1

0,28

0,2

—

8003-34-7

Pyrethrum (purified of sensitising lactones)

1

—

—

—

—

233-060-3

10026-13-8

Phosphorus pentachloride

1

—

—

—

—

( 1 )   EINECS: European Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances.

( 2 )   CAS: Chemical Abstract Service Registry Number.

( 3 )   A skin notation assigned to the occupational exposure limit value indicates the possibility of significant uptake through the skin.

( 4 )   Measured or calculated in relation to a reference period of eight hours as a time-weighted average.

( 5 )   A limit value above which exposure should not occur and which is related to a 15-minute period unless otherwise specified.

( 6 )   mg/m 3 : milligrams per cubic metre of air at 20 °C and 101,3 kPa.

( 7 )   ppm: parts per million by volume in air (ml/m 3 ).