Council Directive 96/59/ECShow full title

Council Directive 96/59/EC of 16 September 1996 on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT)

[F1Article 10 U.K.

1. The Commission shall make available, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 10a(2), a list of the production names of capacitors, resistors and inductance coils containing PCBs.

2. The Commission shall:

(a) fix the reference methods of measurement to determine the PCB content of contaminated materials. Measurements effected before the determination of the reference methods shall remain valid;

(b) if necessary determine, solely for the purpose of Article 9(1)(b) and (c), other less hazardous substitutes for PCBs.

The Commission may fix technical standards for the other methods of disposing of PCBs referred to in the second sentence of Article 8(2).

The measures referred to in the first and second subparagraphs, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 10a(3).]