{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648/annex-V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648/annex-V.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/648",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648",
  "path": "annex/V",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "LIST OF SURFACTANTS THAT HAVE OBTAINED A DEROGATION",
  "text": "By way of derogation granted in accordance with Articles 4-6 ..., the following detergent surfactants, which pass the tests stipulated in Annex II, but which fail the tests stipulated in Annex III, may be placed on the market and used subject to the limitations mentioned below.\nName in the IUPAC nomenclature\nEC Number\nCAS number\nLimitations\nAlcohols, Guerbet, C16-20, ethoxylated, n-butyl ether (7-8EO)\nNone (polymer)\n147993-59-7\nMay be used for the following industrial applications until 27 June 2019:\nbottle washing,\ncleaning-in-place,\nmetal cleaning,\nThe ‘EC number’ means the Einecs, ELINCS or NLP number and is the official number of the substance within the European Union.\n‘Einecs’ means the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances. This inventory contains the definitive list of all substances deemed to be on the Community market on 18 September 1981. The Einecs number can be obtained from the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substance.\n‘ELINCS’ means the European List of Notified Chemical Substances. The ELINCS number can be obtained from the European List of Notified Substances, as amended.\n‘NLP’ means No-Longer Polymer. The term polymer is defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The NLP number can be obtained from the list of ‘No-Longer Polymers’, as amended.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 551/2009 of 25 June 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on detergents, in order to adapt Annexes V and VI thereto (surfactant derogation) (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 5 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 27; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 146 A, 15.6.1990, p. 1 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006, ISSN 1018-5593 EUR 22543 EN."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1 , as corrected by OJ L 136, 29.5.2007, p. 3 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007, ISSN 1018-5593 EUR 20853 EN/3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/648/annex/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:38.850310+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."
}