Table A: New limits and categories of PAHs AfPS Decision on PAHs for GS-Mark Certification, 4 August 2014 | | | | | | | Materials, that are intended to be taken in the mouth or materials in toys with proper and long-term skin contact (longer than 30s) | Materials, not covered in Cat.1, with foreseeable contact to skin longer than 30s (long-term skin contact) or repeated short-term skin contacts | Materials, that do not fall in Cat. 1 or 2, with foreseeable contact to skin up to 30s (short-term skin contact) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Benzo[j]fluoranthene (BjFA) | | | | | | | Benzo[k]fluoranthene (BkFA) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene (DBAhA) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
* = Formulation "repeated short-term skin contact" of REACH Annex XVII Entry 50 Amendment (Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1272/2013) Table B. Transition measures for the new PAH requirements GS Mark Certificate | When to comply with the new PAHs requirements? | Issuance of new GS Mark certificate from 1st July 2015 onwards (note for exceptions below) | Before the issuance of the GS Mark certificate | GS Mark certificate issued before 1st July 2015 | Existing GS Mark certificates are still valid. The new PAHs requirements should be considered during the next factory inspection (within 1 or 2 years depends on the regular control period of the certificate) | Re-issuance of existing GS Mark certificate - Exceptions | A. For non-technical changes, such as the change of company name, relocation of license holder, immediate consideration of new PAH requirement is not a must. However, this should be addressed during the next factory inspection. B. For the new issuance of secondary certificates and its related main-certificate, new PAH requirements must be complied before the next factory inspection, but not later than 28th December 2015. | 4 S+ H+ ^) K5 v a
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