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| document | COM(1982)337  |
| date | June 9, 1982 |
Under the Directive discharges into Community waters liable to contain any sjbstance contained in List I shall be subject to prior authorisation by the competent authority in the Member State concerned. The authorisation must lay down emission standards for discharges which must not exceed the limit values to be laid down by the Council on a proposal.from the Commission. Emission standards may also be laid down on the basis of quality objectives where a Member State can prove that these objectives, also to be laid down by the Council are being met and continuously maintained throughout the area which might be affected by the discharges.
OJ N° L 129, 18 May 1976, page 23.
Directive 76/464/EEC is thus a framework directive which must be implemented by means of subsidiary directives in respect of substances contained in List I.
These subsidiary directives mainly concern direct industrial discharges into the aquatic environment. However, in certain cases it will be necessary to devise a comprehensive approach in order to eliminate pollution caused by certain disubstances discharged into the different environments (water, air, soil) or by indirect or diffuse discharges.
2. Choice so far of priority List I substances
With the exception of mercury and cadmium. List I in the annex to the Directive of 4 May 1976 referred to above does not mention individual substances, but families or groups of substances (for example organohalogen compounds etc. ).
It will therefore be necessary to choose certain individual suby stances from among the families or groups in order to study them and, if appropriate, prepare proposals for the Council. The Directive states that these substances must be selected mainly on the basis of their toxicity, persistence and bioaccumulation.
Following the adoption of the Directive of 4 May 1976 the services of the Commission began the choice of individual priority substances from List I. In this it was helped by a group of national experts, which has met five times.
During these meetings four series of substances have been chosen. These have been studied by the services of the Commission, and several are the subject of proposals to the Council which have been, or are being, prepared. List I also includes carcinogens, some of which are also being examined by the services of the Commission. The substances selected and the progress of the work on them are shown in Table 1.
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Table 1: substances selected so far and progress made
| Substance | Progress made |
| First series: | |
| 1. Mercury and mercury compounds | Proposal for a directive concerning the chloralkali electrolysis industry sent to the Council on 20 June 1979, adopted on 22.03.1982(0J N° L 81 of 27.03.1982).. Proposal for a directive on other industries in preparation. |
| 2. Cadmium and cadmium compounds | Proposal for a directive sent to the Council on 17 February 1981 (0J N° C 118 of 21.5.81). |
| 3. Aldrin 4. Dieldrin 5. Endrin ' | Proposal for a directive sent to the Council on 16 May 1979 (0J N° C 146 of 12.6.1979). |
| Second series: | |
| 6. Chlordane 7. Heptachlor (including Heptachlorepoxide) | Communication by the Commission to the Council of 18 July 1980 (C0M(80) 433 final) of which the Council took formal note on 3 December 1981. |
| 8. DDT 9. Hexachlorocyclohexane (including all of the isomers and in particular Lindane) | The studies and discussions with the national experts are now completed. Appropriate proposals in preparation. |
| 10. PCBs (including PCTs) 11. Hexachlorobenzene | Studies completed: discussions under way with the national experts. |
| Third series: | |
| 12. Endosulfan 13. Hexachlorobutadiene 14. Pentachlorophenol 15. Trichlorophenol | Studies completed. Discussions under way with the national experts. |
| Fourth series: | |
| 16. Benzene 17. Carbon tetrachloride 18. Chloroform | Studies in progress. |
| Carcinogens: | |
| 19. Arsenic and mineral compounds of Arsenic 20. Benzidine 21. PAH (in particular 3,4 Benzopyrene and 3,4 Benzofluoranthene) | Studies in progress. |
Studies carried out and method pursued in drawing up a list of
substances .
In parallel with the work of choosing certain priority substances for List I, the Commission has effected a series of studies in order to establish a complete list of substances which might be in List I.
There are about 4 million chemical compounds of which about 50,000 are used for technical purposes. The aim of the initial study was to identify those among the substances used for technical purposes which, by virtue of their chemical structure, belong to the families and groups of List I.
1,500 substances have been identified.
It quickly became clear that the majority of these substances are not produced or converted on a regular basis within the Community, or that this only occurs in very small quantities (from a few kilogrammes to a few tonnes per year).
Closer analysis has shown that of these 1,500 substances 1,000 are produced or used in quantities of less than 100 t/yr, 186 more than 1,000 t/yr, 44 more than 10,000 t/yr and only 25 in excess of 100,000 t/yr.
Finally, in a third phase, 500 substances produced or used in quantities greater than 100 tonnes per year within the Community have been examined by means of a mathematical model to evaluate the risks to the aquatic environment from discharges of these substances.
This examination has enabled a classification of substances in order of priority in relation to the risk each constitutes for the aquatic environment and human health. '
The method used is probably one of the best possible, but the mat he-... matical model can only perform a rough simulatioh of the natural environment. It has also been necessary to make a number of estimates owing to the lack of exact data on the quantities,
toxicity, persistence and bioaccumulation of certain substances.
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Several other lists of substances presenting risks to the aquatic environment were also taken into account in this work.
Thus one could cite the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency - USA)
1 2 List of toxic pollutants and List of hazardous substances , the
Canadian list (List of priority chemicals 1979^) and the German
catalogue of substances constituting a risk to the aqueous
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envi ronment (Ulnwedtbundesamt, 1980) . ■
Furthermore, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine against Pollution recently drew up a list of dangerous substances for that watercourse. The Services of the Commission participated in this work and was thus able to note specific information and data on certain substances of more particular interest to the ripairian countries of that river.
The Services of the Commission have drawn up a provisional list of 122 substances on the basis of the various lists of substances and on the studies referred to above. This List has been sent to the Member States with a view to obtaining additional information on, in particular, the quantities produced, consumed and discharged in the aquatic environment by each Member State.
This additional information was examined at a meeting of national experts, thus enabling a list of 108 substances out of 122 to be drawn up.
Since the 108 substances selected could not be examined simultaneously, it was agreed at this meeting to choose 15 substances to be studied first.
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Code of Fed. Reg. 1980 Title 40 Part 401 EPA Code of Fed. Reg. 1980 Title 40 Part 116 EPA
Department of the Environment and Department of National Health and Welfare, Priority Chemicals 1979 (The Canada Gazette Part 1, December 1979)
Katalog wassergefahrdender Stoffe, Umweltbundesamt, August 1980 (LTWS - Nr 12).
When one adds to this List of 108 substances the 21 substances which were chosen earlier and which have already been studied (see Table 1, page 3) one obtains the complete list of 129 substances to which this Communication relates.
4. List of substances
The List is annexed to this Communication.
Within this list it is necessary to distinguish four categories of substances in relation to the progress made in the work:
1. 7 substances, indicated by *** are already the subject of a proposal or a Communication to the Council;
2. 14 substances, indicated by **, are under study or have been studied;
3. 15 substances, indicated by *, will be studied in the near ■ future;
4. 93 substances will be studied subsequently.
The Chemical Abstract Service number (CAS) has been added to the substances in order that they might be more easily identified.
The Commission does not consider this list to be final and exhaustive. It plans to review it, if appropriate, in the light of new scientific knowledge and to take account of any other substances which might be produced or used in future.
5. Conclusions
The Commission asks the Council to take formal note of this Communication
It considers further that these substances should be included in List I of Council Directive 76/464/EEC. Where this has not already been done, these substances will be studied as a matter of priority and the Commission will submit to the Council, where necessary, appropriate proposals for the elimination of the pollution of the aquatic environment caused by these substances.
This Communication has also been sent to the European Parliament and to the Economic and Social Committee for information.
List of substances which could belong to List I of Council Directive 76/464/EEC
*** Substances which are the subject of a proposal or a communication to the Council.
** Substances which have been or are being studied.
* Substances to be studied next.
309-00-2 CAS number (Chemical Abstract Service)
| 1. | 309-00-2 | |
| 2. | 95-85-2 | |
| 3. | 120-12-7 | |
| 4. | 7440-38-2 | |
| 5. | 2642-71-9 | |
| 6. | 86-50-0 | |
| 7. | •kk | 71-43-2 |
| 8. | kk | 92-87-5 |
| 9. | . 100-44-7 | |
| 10. | 98-87-3 | |
| 11. | 92-52-4 | |
| 12. | •kit k | 7440-43-9 |
| 13. | k k | 56-23-5 |
| 14: | 302-17-0 | |
| 15. | •kick | 57-74-9 |
| 16. | 79-11-8 |
ALdrin
2-Amino-4-chlorophenol
Anthracene
Arsenic and its mineral compounds
Azinphos-ethyl
Azinphos-methyl
Benzene
Benzidine
Benzyl chloride (Alpha-chlorotoluene)
Benzylidene chloride (Alpha, alpha-dichlorotoluene)
Biphenyl
Cadmium and its compounds Carbon tetrachloride Chloral hydrate Chlordane Chloroacetic acid
3- Chloroaniline
| 18. | 108-42-9 | |
| 19. | 106-47-8 | |
| 20. | * | 108-90-7 |
| 21. | 97-00-7 | |
| 22. | 107-07-3 | |
| 23. | irk | 67-66-3 |
| 24. | 59-50-7 | |
| 25. | 90-13-1 | |
| 26. | ||
| 27. | 89-63-4 | |
| 28. | 89-21-4 | |
| 29. | 88-73-3 | |
| 30. | .121-73-3 | |
| 31. | 89-59-8 | |
| 32. | ||
| 33. | 95-57-8 | |
| 34. | 108-43-0 | |
| 35. | 106-48-9 | |
| 36. | 126-99-8 | |
| 37. | 107-05-1 | |
| 38. | 95-49-8 | |
| 39. | 108-41-8 | |
| 40. | 106-43-4 | |
| 41. | ||
| 42, |
4- ChloroaniLine Chlorobenzene
1- Chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene
2- Chloroethanol Chloroform
4-Chloro-3-methyIphenol
1-Chloronaphthalene
Chloronaphthalenes (technical mixture)
4-Chloro-2-nit roanil ine
1-Chloro-2-nitrobenzene
1-Chloro-3-nitrobenzene
1- Chloro-4-nitrobenzene
4-Chloro-2-nitrotoluene
Chloronitrotoluenes
(other than 4-Chloro-2-nitrotoluene)
2- Chlorophenol 3~Chlorophenol 4-Chlorophenol Chloroprene
(2-Chlorobuta-1,3-diene)
3- Chloropropene (Allyl chloride)
2- Chlorotoluene
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3- Chlorotoluene
4- Chlorotoluene 2-Chloro-p-toluidine Chlorotoluidines
(other than 2*Chloro“p**toluicHne)
| 43. | 56-72-4 | Coumaphos |
| 44. | 108-77-0 | Cyanuric chloride (2,4,6-Trichloro-1,3,5-triazine) |
| 45. | 94-75-7 | 2,4-0 • (including 2,4-D-salts and 2,4-D-ester: |
| 46. ** | 50-29-3 | DDT (including metabolites DDD and DDE) |
| 47. | 298-03-3 | Demeton (including Demeton-o, Demeton-s, Demeton-s-methyl and Demeton-s-methyl-sulphone) |
| 48. * | 106-93-4 | 1,2-Dibromoethane |
| 49. | Dibutyltin dichloride | |
| 50. | Dibutyltin oxide | |
| 51. | Dibutyltin salts (other than Dibutyltin dichloride and Dibutyltin oxide) | |
| 52. | Dichloroanilines | |
| 53. | 95-50-1 | 1,2-Dichlorobenzene |
| 54. | 541-73-1 | 1,3-Dichlorobenzene |
| 55. | 106-46-7 | 1,4-Dichlorobenzene |
| 56. | Dichlorobenzidines | |
| 57. | 108-60-1 | Dichlorodiisopropyl ether |
| 58. * | 75-34-3 | 1,1-Dichloroethane |
| 59. * | 107-06-2 | 1,2-Dichloroethane |
| 60. * | 75-35-4 | 1,1-Dichloroethylene (Vinylidene chloride) ' |
| 61. * | 540-59-0 | 1,2-Dichloroethylene |
| 62. * | 75-09-2 | Dichloromethane |
Dichloronitrobenzenes
| 64. | 120-83-2 | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | |
| 65. | * | 78-87-5 | 1,2-Dichloropropane |
| 66. | 96-23-1 | 1,.3-DichLoropropan-2-ol | |
| 67. | 542-75-6 | 1,3-DichLoropropene | |
| 68. | 78-88-6 | 2,3-Dichloropropene | |
| 69. | 120-36-5 | Dichlorprop | |
| 70. | 62-73-7 | Dichlorvos | |
| 71. | *** | 60-57-1 | Dieldrin |
| 72. | .109-89-7 | Diethy Lamine | |
| 73. | 60-51-5 | Dimethoate | |
| 74. | 124-40-3 | Dimethylamine | |
| 75. | 298-04-4 | Disulfoton | |
| 76. | kk | 115-29-7 | Endosulfan |
| 77. | kkk | 72-20-8 | Endrin |
| 78. | 106-89-8 | Epichlorohydrin . | |
| 79. | 100-41-4 | Ethylbenzene | |
| 80. | 122-14-5 | Fenitrothion | |
| 81. | 55-38-9 | Penthion | |
| 82. | *** | 76-44-8 | Heptachlor (including Heptachlorepoxide) |
| 83. | kk | 118-74-1 | Hexachlorobenzene ' |
| 84. | kk | 87-68-3 | Hexachlorobutadiene |
| 85 | kk | 608-73-1 58-89-9 | Hexachlorocyclohexane (including all isomers and Lindane) |
| 86. | 67-72-1 | Hexachloroethane • |
| 87. | 98-83-9 | Isopropylbenzene | |
| 88. | 330-55-2 | Linuron | |
| 89. | ic | 121-75-5 | Malathion |
| 90. | 94-74-6 | MCPA | |
| 91. | 93-65-2 | Mecoprop | |
| 92. | *** | 7439-97-6 | Mercury and its compounds |
| 93. | 10265-92-6 | Methamidophos | |
| 94. | 7786-34-7 | Mevinphos | |
| 95. | 1746-81-2 | Monolinuron | |
| 96. | 91-20-3 | Naphthalene | |
| 97. | 1113-02-6 | Omethoate | |
| 98. | 301-12-2 | 0 xydemeton-met hyl | |
| 99. | ** | PAH (with special reference to: 3.4- Benzopyrene and 3.4- Benzofluoranthene) | |
| 100. | 56-38-2 298-00-0 | Parathion (including Parathion-methyl) | |
| 101. | ** | PCB (including PCI) | |
| 102. | ** | 87-86-5 | Pentachlorophenol ' |
| 103. | 14816-18-3 | Phoxim | |
| 104. | 709-98-8 | Propanil | |
| 105. | 1698-60-8 | Pyrazon |
122-34-9
Simazine
| -1 1'» - • •• f- • | |||
| 107. | 93-76-5 | 2,4,5-T (including 2,4,5-T salts and 2,4,5-T esters) | |
| 108. | Tetrabutyltin | ||
| 109. | 95-94-3 | 1,2,4,5-T etrachlorobenzene | |
| 110. | * | 79-34-5 | 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane |
| Ill | * | 127-18-4 | Tetrachloroethylene |
| 112. | 108-88-3 | Toluene | |
| 113. | 24017-47-8 | Triazophos | |
| 114. | 126-73-8 | Tributyl phosphate | |
| 115. | Tributyltin oxide . | ||
| 116. | 52-68-6 | Trichlorfon | |
| 117. | * | Trichlorobenzene (technical mixture) | |
| 118. | 120-82-1 | 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | |
| 119. | * | 71-55-6 | 1,1,1-Trichloroethane |
| 120. | * | 79-00-5 ‘ | 1,1,2-Trichloroethane |
| 121. | * | 79-01-6 | Trichloroethylene |
| 122. | ** | 95-95-4 88-06-2 | Trichlorophenols |
| 123. | 76-13-1 | 1,1,2-TrichlorotrifLuoroethane | |
| 124. | 1582-09-8 | Trifluralin | |
| 125. | 900-95-8 | Triphenyltin acetate (Fentin acetate) ' | |
| 126. | Triphenyltin chloride (Fentin chloride) |
127.
128
76-87-9 Triphenyltin hydroxide
(Fentin hydoxide)
75-01-4 Vinyl chloride
(Chloroethylene)
Xylenes
(technical mixture of isomers)
129.
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