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very bioaccumulative
ARTICLE-14: Chemical safety report and duty to apply and recommend risk reduction measures [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) assessment. ...
ARTICLE-31: Requirements for safety data sheets [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) where a substance is persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic or very persistent and very bioaccumulative in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex XIII; or ...
... (b) in an individual concentration of ≥ 0,1 % by weight for non-gaseous preparations at least one substance that is persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic or very persistent and very bioaccumulative in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex XIII or has been included for reasons other than those referred to in point (a) in the list established in accordance with Article
59(1); or ...
ARTICLE-57: Substances to be included in Annex XIV [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) substances which are very persistent and very bioaccumulative in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex XIII of this Regulation; ...
... (f) substances — such as those having endocrine disrupting properties or those having persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic properties or very persistent and very bioaccumulative properties, which do not fulfil the criteria of points (d) or (e) — for which there is scientific evidence of probable serious
effects to human health or the environment which give rise to an equivalent level of concern to those of other substances listed in points (a) to (e) and which are identified on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the procedure set out in
Article 59. ...
ARTICLE-60: Granting of authorisations [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) substances identified under Article 57(f) having persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic properties or very persistent and very bioaccumulative properties. ...
ARTICLE-138: Review [go to this ARTICLE]
... 5. The Commission shall carry out a review of Annex XIII by 1 December 2008, to assess the adequacy of the criteria for identifying substances which are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic or very persistent and very bioaccumulative, with a view to proposing an amendment to it, if appropriate, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 133(4). ...
ARTICLE-II: GUIDE TO THE COMPILATION OF SAFETY DATA SHEETS [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) substances that are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic or very persistent and very bioaccumulative in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex XIII, if the concentration of an individual substance is equal to or greater than 0,1 %. ...
... (b) ≥ 0,1 % by weight and the substances are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic or very persistent and very bioaccumulative in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex XIII. ...
ARTICLE-XIII: CRITERIA FOR
THE IDENTIFICATION OF PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES,
AND VERY PERSISTENT AND VERY BIOACCUMULATIVE SUBSTANCES [go to this ARTICLE]
... CRITERIA FOR
THE IDENTIFICATION OF PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES,
AND VERY PERSISTENT AND VERY BIOACCUMULATIVE SUBSTANCES ...
... A substance fulfils the very bioaccumulative criterion (vB-) when: ...