Regulation (EC) No. 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC.
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Abstract
This Regulation aims at protecting human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants by prohibiting and restricting the production, placing on the market and use of substances subject to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the 1998 Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Based upon the precautionary principle, this Regulation aims at minimizing releases of such substances and sets out specific provisions regarding waste consisting of, containing or contaminated by any of those substances.
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An unofficial consolidated version of the present Regulation as amended last by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/460 of 30 March 2016 is attached.References to this Regulation shall be construed as references to Regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants.
Repealed
Yes
Serial Imprint
Official Journal of the European Union L 158, 30 April 2004, pp. 7-49.
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English
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