There is a wide variation in the regulation of wood preservatives within the EEC, ranging from product by product authorization under persticides legislation to controls via standards, or simple compliance with basic requirements on classification packaging and labelling. During the past two years the commission of the European Communitiesn has worked on a proposal concerning the placing on the marketof biocidal procducts. This includes wood preservatives. The proposal is aimed at ensuring completion of the internal market in respect of these products and providing a high degree of protection for man and the environment. It provides for the creation at the Community level of a positiv list of active substances with authorization of individual products by member states. Provision is made for mutual authorization of products containing active substances of the positive list. Applications for authorization must be supported by data. Common principles for evaluation of applications will be developed and a programme for review of eyisting active substances will be established.

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