Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany. 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 398, 30.12.1989, p. 19. (4) OJ L 142, 5.6.1999, p. 22. (5) According to paragraph 5(1) No 6 of that law these are: Objects, that are intended to be in contact with the human body in a non-transitory way, such as clothes, bedlinen, masks, wigs, hair pieces, artificial eyelashes, bracelets, spectacle frames. (6) OJ C 120, 24.4.2001, p. 9. (7) Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 describes in Annex V, antifouling products (product-type 21) as "products used to control the growth and settlement of fouling organisms (microbes and higher forms of plant or animal species) on vessels, aquaculture equipment or other structures used in water". (8) OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37. (9) OJ L 217, 5.8.1998, p. 18. (10) OJ L 196, 16.8.1967, p. 1. (11) OJ L 199, 30.7.1999, p. 57. (12) WS Atkins International Ltd, "Assessment of the risks to health and to the environment of tin organic compounds and of arsenic in certain biocidal products and of the effects of further restrictions on their marketing and use", final report, April 1998.Opinion of the SCTEE on the report by WS Atkins International Ltd. Expressed at the sixth SCTEE plenary meeting, Brussels, 27 November 1998. (13) See footnote 12. (14) Similar arguments were raised by the Belgian authorities and examined by the Commission in the framework of a request by Belgium according to Article 95(5) to introduce draft national measures regarding organostannic compounds as of 1 January 2003. The Commission adopted a Decision rejecting the draft national measures on 25 July 2000 (Decision 2000/509/EC; OJ L 205, 12.8.2000, p. 7).