SWEDEN: NATIONAL CHEMICALS INSPECTORATES REGULATIONS ON CERTAIN CHLORINATED SOLVENTS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/NOTIF. 95.48. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SWEDEN. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: National Chemicals Inspectorate. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Methylene chloride CAS No. 75-09-2. Trichloroethylene CAS No. 79-01-6 and preparations containing these substances. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: The National Chemicals Inspectorate's Regulations with Respect to Exemptions from the Ban in the Ordinance (1991: 1289) on Certain Chlorinated Solvents. 6. Description of content: According to the Ordinance on Certain Chlorinated Solvents, methylene chloride and trichloroethylene may not be offered for sale, transferred or used professionally after 1 January 1996. The proposal implies a possibility to continue to use the two solvents in some areas until the end of 1999. The uses within the areas of research and development and chemical analysis at laboratories are however proposed to be exempted without a time-limit. The exemptions from the ban are associated with a charge of 150 SEK/kg. of methylene chloride or trichloroethylene. 7. Objective and rationale: The proposal has been made in order to make it possible to grant exemptions from the ban to use methylene chloride and trichloroethylene in those areas of use which are subjected to special requirements. Without these exemptions there will be a total ban on the sale, transfer and professional use of methylene chloride and trichloroethylene, when the Ordinance on Certain Chlorinated Solvents in this respect enters into force on 1 January 1996. 8. Relevant documents: Notification TBT/Notif.91.88. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 January 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 24 April 1995. (067)

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