L 22320 Official Journal of the European Union 25.8.2010 REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 756/2010 of 24 August 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants as regards Annexes IV and V (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 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 Article 7(4)(a), Article 7(5) and Article 14 thereof, Whereas: ( ( ( b %) ’) Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 implements in the law of the Union the commitments set out in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (hereinafter ‘the Convention’) approved by Council Decision 2006/507/EC of 14 October 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (3) and in the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (hereinafter ‘the Protocol’) approved by Council Decision 2004/259/EC of 19 February 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (). Following nominations of substances received from the European Union and its Member States, Norway and Mexico, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee established under the Convention has concluded its work on the nine proposed substances, which have been found to meet the criteria of the Convention. At the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention from 4 to 8 May 158, 30.4.2004, p. 7. oJ L 0J L 209, 31.7.2006, p. 1. oJL 81, 19.3.2004, p. 35. D 0 O] J 2009 (hereinafter ‘COP4’) it was agreed to add all nine substances to the Annexes to the Convention. Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 should be amended in order to take into account the new substances that have been listed during the COP4. The COP4 decided to list chlordecone, hexabromo- biphenyl and hexachlorocyclohexanes, including lindane, in Annex A (elimination) to the Convention. Those substances are included in Annexes IV and V to Regu- lation (EC) No 850/2004 since they were listed by the Protocol. The COP4 decided to list pentachlorobenzene in Annex A (elimination) to the Convention. Therefore, penta- chlorobenzene should be listed in Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004, indicating the corre- sponding maximum concentration limits, which have been set applying the methodology used for establishing the limit values for persistent organic pollutants (here- inafter ‘POPs’) in Council Regulation (EC) No 1195/2006 of 18 July 2006 amending Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants (¥) and in Council Regulation (EC) No 172/2007 of 16 February 2007 amending Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants (°). Those provi- sional maximum concentration limits should be reviewed in view of the results of a study on the implementation of the waste-related provisions of Regulation (EC) No 850/2004, to be conducted on behalf of the Commission. The COP4 decided to list Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and its derivatives (hereinafter ‘PFOS) in Annex B (restriction) to the Convention, with some exemptions for specific applications. The use of PFOS is currently allowed for some specific applications. Because of the lifespan  of  articles  containing ~ PFOS,  these L 217, 8.8.2006, p. 1. L 55, 23.2.2007, p. 1.