(1)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 implements the commitments of the Union under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2) (‘the Convention’) and under the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants (3) (‘the Protocol’).

(2)

Annex A to the Convention contains a list of chemicals. Each Party to the Convention is required to prohibit the chemicals on the list or take the legal and administrative measures necessary to eliminate their production, use, import and export.

(3)

The Conference of the Parties to the Convention has, pursuant to Article 8(9) of the Convention, decided in its eleventh meeting held from 1 to 12 May 2023 to amend Annex A to the Convention to include methoxychlor in that Annex without any specific exemption. The Union supported the inclusion of methoxychlor in Annex A without specific exemptions as stipulated in Council Decision (EU) 2023/1006 (4). Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, which contains a list of the substances listed in the Convention and in the Protocol as well as substances listed only in the Convention, should therefore also be amended to include methoxychlor.

(4)

To reinforce the application and enforcement of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 in the Union, a limit value should be set for methoxychlor occurring as an unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and articles. That limit value should be set at 0,01 mg/kg, corresponding to the maximum residue level for methoxychlor set in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5).

(5)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 should therefore be amended accordingly,