Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the… Article 3
Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the… Article 3
Article 3
Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the substances and materials listed as extraction solvents in Annex I comply with the following general and specific purity criteria:
(a)
they shall not contain a toxicologically dangerous amount of any element or substance;
(b)
subject to any exceptions deriving from the specific purity criteria adopted in accordance with point (d) of Article 4, they shall not contain more than 1 mg/kg of arsenic or more than 1 mg/kg of lead;
(c)
they shall satisfy the specific purity criteria adopted in accordance with point (d) of Article 4.
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