{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-19/annex-V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-19/annex-V.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2007/19",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 2 April 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-19",
  "path": "annex/V",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex V to Directive 2002/72/EC is amended as follows:\n(1) Part A is replaced by the following:\n‘ Part A:\nGeneral specifications\nPlastic material and articles shall not release primary aromatic amines in a detectable quantity (DL = 0,01 mg/kg of food or food simulant). The migration of the primary aromatic amines appearing in the lists in Annex II and III is excluded from this restriction. ’\n(2) In Part B, the following new specifications are inserted, in the appropriate numerical order:\nOJ L 339, 30.12.1996, p. 1 . ’\nRef. No\nOTHER SPECIFICATIONS\n‘ 42080\nCarbon black\nSpecifications:\nToluene extractables: maximum 0,1 %, determined according to ISO method 6209.\nUV absorption of cyclohexane extract at 386 nm: < 0,02 AU for a 1 cm cell or < 0,1 AU for a 5 cm cell, determined according to a generally recognised method of analysis.\nBenzo(a)pyrene content: max 0,25 mg/kg carbon black.\nMaximum use level of carbon black in the polymer: 2,5 % w/w\n72081/10\nPetroleum hydrocarbon resins (hydrogenated)\nSpecifications:\nPetroleum hydrocarbon resins, hydrogenated are produced by the catalytic or thermal polymerisation of dienes and olefins of the aliphatic, alicyclic and/or monobenzenoid arylalkene types from distillates of cracked petroleum stocks with a boiling range not greater than 220 °C, as well as the pure monomers found in these distillation streams, subsequently followed by distillation, hydrogenation and additional processing.\nProperties:\nViscosity: > 3 Pa.s at 120 °C.\nSoftening point: > 95 °C as determined by ASTM Method E 28-67.\nBromine number: < 40 (ASTM D1159)\nThe colour of a 50 % solution in toluene < 11 on the Gardner scale\nResidual aromatic monomer ≤ 50 ppm\n76845\nPolyester of 1,4-butanediol with caprolactone\nMW fraction < 1 000 is less than 0,5 % (w/w)\n81500\nPolyvinylpyrrolidone\nThe substance shall meet the purity criteria established in Commission Directive 96/77/EC\n88640\nSoybean oil, epoxidized\nOxirane < 8 %, iodine number < 6",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "X",
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      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Directive 2007/19/EC of 30 March 2007 amending Directive 2002/72/EC relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and Council Directive 85/572/EEC laying down the list of simulants to be used for testing migration of constituents of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (Official Journal of the European Union L 91 of 31 March 2007)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 339, 30.12.1996, p. 1 . ’"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2007/19/annex/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:28.112328+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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