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    Consolidated text: Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1831 of 24 October 2019 establishing a fifth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC and amending Commission Directive 2000/39/EC (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

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    COMMISSION DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1831

    of 24 October 2019

    establishing a fifth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC and amending Commission Directive 2000/39/EC

    (Text with EEA relevance)

    (OJ L 279 31.10.2019, p. 31)


    Corrected by:

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    Corrigendum, OJ L 015, 24.1.2022, p.  21 (2019/1831)



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    COMMISSION DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1831

    of 24 October 2019

    establishing a fifth list of indicative occupational exposure limit values pursuant to Council Directive 98/24/EC and amending Commission Directive 2000/39/EC

    (Text with EEA relevance)



    Article 1

    A fifth list of EU indicative occupational exposure limit values is established for the chemical agents listed in the Annex.

    Article 2

    Member States shall establish national occupational exposure limit values for the chemical agents listed in the Annex, taking into account the EU limit values.

    Article 3

    In the Annex to Directive 2000/39/EC, the reference to cumene is deleted with effect from 20 May 2021.

    Article 4

    1.  
    The Member States shall adopt and publish, by 20 May 2021 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive.

    They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and shall accompany their notification with one or more explanatory documents in the form of tables showing the correlation between the provisions and this Directive.

    When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

    2.  
    Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main national legal provisions which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

    Article 5

    This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

    Article 6

    This Directive is addressed to the Member States.



    ANNEX



    EC No (1)

    CAS No (2)

    Name of the chemical agent

    Limit values

    Notation (3)

    8 hours (4)

    Short-term (5)

    mg/m3 (6)

    ppm (7)

    mg/m3 (6)

    ppm (7)

    200-539-3

    62-53-3

    Aniline (8)

    7,74

    2

    19,35

    5

    skin

    200-817-4

    74-87-3

    Chloromethane

    42

    20

    -

    -

    -

    200-875-0

    75-50-3

    Trimethylamine

    4,9

    2

    12,5

    5

    -

    202-704-5

    98-82-8

    2-Phenylpropane

    (Cumene) (8)

    50

    10

    250

    50

    skin

    203-300-1

    105-46-4

    sec-Butyl acetate

    241

    50

    723

    150

    -

    203-403-1

    106-49-0

    4-aminotoluene

    4,46

    1

    8,92

    2

    skin

    203-745-1

    110-19-0

    Isobutyl acetate

    241

    50

    723

    150

    -

    204-633-5

    123-51-3

    Isoamyl alcohol

    18

    5

    37

    10

    -

    204-658-1

    123-86-4

    n-Butyl acetate

    241

    50

    723

    150

    -

    ▼C1

    233-046-7

    10025-87-3

    Phosphoryl trichloride

    0,064

    0,01

    0,13

    0,02

    -
    (1)   

    EC No: European Community (EC) number, the European Union’s numerical identifier for substances.

    (2)   

    CAS No: Chemical Abstract Service Registry Number.

    (3)   

    A skin notation assigned to the occupational exposure limit value indicates the possibility of significant uptake through the skin.

    (4)   

    Measured or calculated in relation to a reference period of eight hours time-weighted average (TWA).

    (5)   

    Short-term exposure limit (STEL). A limit value which must not be exceeded. The period to which it relates is 15 minutes, unless otherwise specified.

    (6)   

    mg/m3: milligrams per cubic metre of air. For chemicals in gas or vapour phase, the limit value is expressed at 20 °C and 101,3 kPa.

    (7)   

    ppm: parts per million by volume in air (ml/m3).

    (8)   

    During exposure monitoring, account should be taken of relevant biological monitoring values as suggested by the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits for Chemicals Agents (SCOEL).
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