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"Mr President, I would like to thank all the Members of Parliament who have taken part in the debate.
My office – together with officials from my Directorate-General, whom I thank for the work completed in the past few months – has taken into account all observations made, including on future activities in this important area.
Before closing the debate, I would like to underline the Commission’s commitment to a thorough re-examination of the proposed maximum limit for household automatic dishwashers by the end of 2014, with the aim of ensuring its applicability and effectiveness in practice or providing the opportunity to make amendments. I hope this will also respond to the fears expressed by Mr Ries, and should underline that the ‘fine model test’ principle will continue to be part of our policy work.
Thanks again to everyone for your cooperation, and let me add that phosphates are not a hazardous substance under the terms of the regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and so I do not think that REACH is the appropriate instrument for banning or guaranteeing such substances. I repeat: there will be an assessment in 2014 and any new measure or additional amendment will then have to be reflected in the sectoral regulation.
On the other hand, if our studies show opportunities for further restrictions of other chemicals used in detergents or washing powders, these will be introduced by applying REACH."@en1
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