Translation of "Gratte-dos à action chimique " (French → English) :

It should be built on: (a) draft document ‘SOPs for the HSC Network for the risk assessment and risk management of chemical events’ prepared by the Commission with input from the Chemical, Biological and Radio Nuclear (CBRN) Section of the Health Security Committee (HSC) and which is available as part of the outcomes of the CARRA-NET initiative; (b) input provided by the ‘Chemical and Radiation Risk Assessment Network (CARRA-NET)’ project that started in October 2010 under service contract No EAHC/2010/Health/12 for the implementatio ...[+++]n of framework contract No EAHC/2009/Health/06 Lot 2 concerning multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition on external assistance concerning activities in the area of health security ‘For establishing risk assessment networks of toxic industrial chemicals and radioactive threats and risks’ — the tender was awarded to the Health Protection Agency and the results will pave the way for establishing future networks for chemicals and radioactive threats; (c) lessons learnt from the three regional table top ‘IRIDIUM’ exercises on chemical events implemented in 2011 — the three exercises have been implemented under the specific subject ‘Chemical exercises’ under the framework contract No SANCO/C3-2007-01 (8); and (d) input provided by the initiative ‘Chemical and Radiological Inventory of Medical Countermeasures (CARIMEC)’ that was launched in December 2010 under service contract No EAHC/2010/Health/17 for the implementation of framework contract No EAHC/2009/Health/06 Lot 2 concerning multiple framework contracts with reopening of competition on external assistance concerning activities in the area of health security ‘For establishing an inventory of public health measures and medical countermeasures to respond to toxic industrial chemicals and radioactive threats and risks’. The CARIMEC initiative is carried out by the Health Protection Agency.

Under Article 2(1)(a) of Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market (the Biocides Directive) (7), biocidal products are defined as active substances and preparations containing one or more active substances, which are intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, prevent the action of, or otherwise exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means.

8. Considers that, as far as chemicals are concerned, Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency represents progress in reducing risks to human beings and the environment, but that it has yet to prove that it will effectively do so in a significant manner, and regrets that the regulation does not in all respects accord with the objectives agreed in the Sixth Environment Action Programme; considers it regrettable that the thematic strategy concerning t ...[+++]he sustainable use of pesticides has been substantially delayed, and that the measures taken to improve air quality and the urban environment and to reduce noise fall far short of the objectives of the Environment Action Programme; calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a revised National Emission Ceilings Directive as soon as possible; believes that it is necessary to ensure full enforcement of the Environmental Noise Directive;

Oils obtained from the fruit of the olive tree solely by mechanical or other physical means under conditions that do not lead to alterations in the oil, which have not undergone any treatment other than washing, decantation, centrifugation or filtration, to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or using adjuvants having a chemical or biochemical action, or by re-esterification process and any mixture with oils of other kinds.

Oils obtained from the fruit of the olive tree solely by mechanical or other physical means under conditions that do not lead to alterations in the oil, which have not undergone any treatment other than washing, decantation, centrifugation or filtration, to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or using adjuvants having a chemical or biochemical action (not including the enzyme activities naturally present in olives), or by re-esterification process and any mixture with oils of other kinds.

Active substances and preparations containing one or more active substances, put up in the form in which they are supplied to the user, intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, prevent the action of, or otherwise exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means.