Translation of "Produit chimique ayant des propriétés d'accumulation " (French → English) :

10. No chemical shall be exported later than six months before its expiry date, where such a date exists or can be inferred from the production date, unless the intrinsic properties of the chemical render that impracticable.

whereas in 2010, over 103 million items of goods, valued in total to EUR 1,11 billion, were seized at the EU’s external borders on suspicion of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR); whereas China is the country of origin for 85 % of these goods; whereas an important feature of intellectual property protection is the correct enforcement of existing laws and international commitments, including statutes on penalties; whereas such goods are frequently produced in facilities that also produce legitimately labelled goods, and are often produced in disregard of both labour law and health and safety requirements and thus pose a dang ...[+++]er to consumers and, in the case of chemicals, to the wider environment;

Since substances can have one or more constituents with PBT or vPvB properties, or can transform or degrade into products with such properties, the identification should also take account of the PBT/vPvB-properties of such constituents and transformation and/or degradation products.

Regarding chemicals, an important step has been reached with the final adoption of the REACH Regulation[54] in December 2006, which will enter into force in June 2007 and impose gathering information on toxicological properties of chemicals through the EU Chemicals Agency.

2. The characteristic or set of characteristics referred to in paragraph 1(a) may relate to the product's intrinsic features such as its physical, chemical, microbiological or organoleptic features, or to the product's production method or to specific conditions that pertain during its production.

They are the chemicals that build up in our body and the environment until they cause problems.