See Full Document Text
Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2024/2570 27.9.2024
COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2024/2570
of 22 July 2024
amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards
methoxychlor
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019on persistent
organic pollutants(1), and in particular Article 15(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 implements the commitments of the Union under the Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants(2)(‘the Convention’) and under the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range
Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants(3)(‘the Protocol’).
(2) Annex A to the Convention contains a list of chemicals. Each Party to the Convention is required to prohibit the
chemicals on the list or take the legal and administrative measures necessary to eliminate their production, use,
import and export.
(3) The Conference of the Parties to the Convention has, pursuant to Article 8(9) of the Convention, decided in its
eleventh meeting held from 1to 12 May 2023to amend Annex A to the Convention to include methoxychlor in
that Annex without any specific exemption. The Union supported the inclusion of methoxychlor in Annex A
without specific exemptions as stipulated in Council Decision (EU) 2023/1006(4). Part A of Annex I to Regulation
(EU) 2019/1021, which contains a list of the substances listed in the Convention and in the Protocol as well as
substances listed only in the Convention, should therefore also be amended to include methoxychlor.
(4) To reinforce the application and enforcement of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 in the Union, a limit
value should be set for methoxychlor occurring as an unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and
articles. That limit value should be set at 0,01 mg/kg, corresponding to the maximum residue level for
methoxychlor set in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council(5).
(5) Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 should therefore be amended accordingly,
(1) OJ L 169, 25.6.2019, p. 45, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1021/oj.
(2) Council Decision 2006/507/EC of 14 October 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (OJ L 209, 31.7.2006, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2006/507/oj).
(3) Council Decision 2004/259/EC of 19 February 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (OJ L 81, 19.3.2004,
p. 35, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2004/259/oj).
(4) Council Decision (EU) 2023/1006 of 25 April 2023 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the eleventh
meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants as regards the proposals for
amendments of Annex A to that Convention (OJ L 136, 24.5.2023, p. 55, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2023/1006/oj).
(5) Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of
pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1,
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2005/396/oj).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2570/oj 1/3EN
OJ L, 27.9.2024
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 July 2024.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
2/3 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2570/ojEN
OJ L, 27.9.2024
ANNEX
In Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, the following entry is added:
Substance CAS No EC No Specific exemption on intermediate use or other
specification
‘Methoxychlor 72-43-5 200-779-9 For the purposes of this entry, Article 4(1),
“Methoxychlor” refers to any possible isomer 30667-99-3 point (b), shall apply to concentrations of
of dimethoxydiphenyltrichloroethane or any 76733-77-2 methoxychlor equal to or below 0,01
combination thereof. 255065-25-9 mg/kg (0,000001 % by weight) where they
255065-26-0 are present in substances, mixtures or arti
59424-81-6 cles.’
1348358-72-4
and others
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/2570/oj 3/3