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6 February 2020  
(20-0968) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 5 February 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the European Union .  
 
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The European Union would like to inform the WTO Members that  Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the 
European Parliam ent and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain 
plastic products on the environment  was adopted on 5 June 2019 and published in the Official 
Journal of the EU L 155 on 12 June 2019.  
The text of the Regulation is available on  the EU -TBT website in English, French and Spanish: 
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/ , and in all the official lan guages of the EU at:  
https://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -content/EN/TXT/?qid=1580735148115&uri=CELEX:32019L0904   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/EEC/20_0953_00_e.pdf  
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