20.6.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 1591 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2012 of 19 June 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants as regards Annex I (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, diene (4), polychlorinated naphthalenes  (hereinafter Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, ‘PCN’), and short-chain chlorinated paraffins (°) (here- inafter ‘SCCPs’) to the Protocol. (3) In view of the Decisions taken by the CLRTAP, it is necessary to update Annex I, Part B to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 in order to include the three new substances listed in the Protocol. Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC ('), and ) in particular Articles 14(1) and 14(3) thereof, ) Plaqng on the mfirket af%d use of SCCPs has been restricted in the Union by virtue of Annex XVII to Regu- lation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council () on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). Whereas: The existing restriction on SCCPs in the Union covers only two uses and thus its scope is much narrower than the scope of the restriction on SCCPs established by the Decision of the CLRTAP Executive Body. This Regulation (1) Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 implements in the law of should therefore widen the scope of restriction on SCCPs the Union the commitments set out in the Stockholm in the Union by prohibiting their production, placing on Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (hereinafter the market, and use, except for two exempted uses. ‘the Convention’) approved by Council Decision 2006/507/EC of 14 October 2004 concerning the tc}(: Csl?slcir}ll’ol?rrll gzgflgngir:hSnEngsli):ti?ltCooigg;lllilg I;};Hzf (5)  The 1 % threshold level established in this Regulation for tants () and in the 1998 Protocol to the 1979 SCCPs should not be considered as an implementation of Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air the notion of ‘unintentional trace contaminant’ contained Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (hereinafter in Article .4(1?@) of Reg.ulat.lon (EQ) No 85 0/2004. ‘the Protocol) approved by Council Decision Further. -sc1er1t1f1c analysis  is .requ1.red before the 2004/259/EC of 19 February 2004 concerning the Commission can reach a clear view with regard to the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of level corresponding to ‘unintentional trace contaminant’ the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range in relation to SCCPs. Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollu- tants (°) (hereinafter ‘CLRTAP). (6)  The derogations for SCCPs should, where applicable, be At its 27th Session from 14 to 18 December 2009, the CLRTAP Executive Body decided to add hexachlorobuta- 158, 30.4.2004, p. 7. 0J L 0] L 209, 31.7.2006, p. 1. 0J L 81, 19.3.2004, p. 35. subject to the use of the best available techniques. The Commission should continue to review those derogations and the availability of safer alternative substances or tech- nologies. (*) Decision 2009/1. (°) Decision 2009/2. (¥ OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1.