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EU Commission published a draft regulation that will amend Annex XVII of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and introduce further chemical restrictions on the use of substances in apparel, footwear and other textile consumer products.

When it is implemented, the regulation will amend Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the REACH with regards certain substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR), category1Aor 1B.

The scope of the regulation applies to:

• clothing or related accessories

• textiles other than clothing which, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, come into contact with human skin to an extent similar to clothing

• footwear

The proposed substances that are to be restricted and their respective limits are summarized below.

Summary of Proposed Restrictions

Substances	CAS No	Proposed Restriction
Cadmium and its compounds	-	≤ 1 mg/kg (extractable Cd metal)
Chromium VI compounds	-	≤1 mg/kg (extractable Cr VI)
Arsenic compounds	-	≤ 1 mg/kg (extractable As metal)
Lead and its compounds	-	≤ 1 mg/kg (extractable Pb metal)
Benzene	71-43-2	≤ 5 mg/kg
Benz[a]anthracene	56-55-3	≤ 1 mg/kg
Benz[e]acephenanthrylene	205-99-2	≤ 1 mg/kg
Benzo[a]pyrene; Benzo[def]chrysene	50-32-8	≤ 1 mg/kg
Benzo[e]pyrene	192-97-2	≤ 1 mg/kg
Benzo[j]fluoranthene	205-82-3	≤ 1 mg/kg
Benzo[k]fluoranthene	207-08-9	≤ 1 mg/kg
Chrysene	218-01-9	≤ 1 mg/kg
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene	53-70-3	≤ 1 mg/kg
α,α,α,4-tetrachlorotoluene; p-chlorobenzotrichloride	5216-25-1	≤ 1 mg/kg
α,α,α-trichlorotoluene; benzotrichloride	98-07-7	≤ 1 mg/kg
α-chlorotoluene; benzyl chloride	100-44-7	≤ 1 mg/kg
Formaldehyde	50-00-0	≤ 75 mg/kg
1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid; di-C 6-8-branched alkylesters, C 7-rich	71888-89-6	≤1000 mg/kg (individually or in combination with other phthalates in this entry or in other entries of Annex XVII that are classified in Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 in any of the hazard classes carcinogenicity, germ cell mutagenicity or reproductive toxicity, category1Aor 1B)
Bis(2-methoxyethyl) phthalate	117-82-8
Diisopentylphthalate	605-50-5	≤1000 mg/kg
Di-n-pentyl phthalate (DPP)	131-18-0
Di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP)	84-75-3
N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone; 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP)	872-50-4	≤ 3000 mg/kg
N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC)	127-19-5	≤ 3000 mg/kg
N,N-dimethylformamide; Dimethyl formamide	68-12-2	≤ 3000 mg/kg
1,4,5,8-tetraaminoanthraquinone; C.I. Disperse Blue 1	2475-45-8	≤ 50 mg/kg
Benzenamine,4,4'-(4-iminocyclohexa-2,5- dienylidenemethylene)dianiline hydrochloride; C.I. Basic Red 9	569-61-9	≤ 50 mg/kg
[4-[4,4'-bis(dimethylamino)benzhydrylidene]cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene]dimethylammonium chloride; C.I. Basic Violet 3 with ≥0.1 % of Michler's ketone (EC no. 202-027-5)	548-62-9	≤ 50 mg/kg
4-chloro-o-toluidinium chloride	3165-93-3	≤ 30 mg/kg
2-Naphthylammoniumacetate	553-00-4	≤ 30 mg/kg
4-methoxy-m-phenylene diammonium sulphate; 2,4-diaminoanisole sulphate	39156-41-7	≤ 30 mg/kg
2,4,5-trimethylaniline hydrochloride	21436-97-5	≤ 30 mg/kg
Quinoline	91-22-5	≤ 50 mg/kg

Links to the relevant notifications and legislations are provided below

♦ http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/tbt/en/

♦ https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_0628_00_e.pdf

♦ https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_0628_01_e.pdf