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  "title": "Commission Decision of 9 July 2009 on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the Community eco-label for footwear (notified under document number C(2009) 5612) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/563/EC) (repealed)",
  "short_title": "Commission Decision of 9 July 2009 on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the Community eco-label for footwear (notified under document number C(2009) 5612) (2009/563/EC)",
  "long_title": "Commission Decision of 9 July 2009 on establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the Community eco-label for footwear (notified under document number C(2009) 5612) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/563/EC) (repealed)",
  "citation": "EU Decision 2009/563",
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      "heading": "The aims of the criteria",
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      "heading": "For shoes made of leather, there shall be no Chromium VI in the final product.",
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      "heading": "There shall be no Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead in the materials used for the product assembly or in the final product.",
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      "heading": "The amount of free and hydrolysed formaldehyde of the components of the footwear shall not exceed the following limits:",
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      "heading": "Reduction of water consumption (only for the tanning of hides and skins)",
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      "heading": "If the waste waters from leather tanning sites and from the textile industries are released directly into fresh waters the content of COD shall not exceed 250 mg COD/l of water discharged.",
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      "heading": "Tannery waste water after treatment shall contain less than 1 mg Chromium (III)/l.",
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      "heading": "Pentachlorophenol (PCP) and Tetrachlorophenol (TCP) and its salts and esters shall not be used.",
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      "heading": "No azo dyes shall be used that may cleave to any of the following aromatic amines:",
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      "heading": "The following N-Nitrosamines shall not be detected in rubber:",
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      "heading": "C10-C13 chloralkanes shall not be used in leather, rubber or textile components.",
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      "heading": "No dyes meeting the criteria for classification as carcinogenic, mutagenic toxic to reproduction, hazardous/dangerous to the environment with the following R-phrases: R40, R45, R49, R50, R51, R52, R53, R60, R61, R62, R63 or R68 (or any combination), shall be used. (Classification rules as according to Council Directive 67/548/EEC or Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.",
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      "heading": "Alkylphenol ethoxylate (APE), and Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) shall not be used.",
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      "heading": "Biocides: Only biocidal products containing biocidal active substances included in Annex IA of the Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, and authorised for use in footwear, shall be allowed for use.",
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