# Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on detergents (Text with EEA relevance), Annex V: LIST OF SURFACTANTS THAT HAVE OBTAINED A DEROGATION

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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.
Name in the IUPAC nomenclature
EC Number
CAS number
Limitations
Alcohols, Guerbet, C16-20, ethoxylated, n-butyl ether (7-8EO)
None (polymer)
147993-59-7
May be used for the following industrial applications until 27 June 2019:
bottle washing,
cleaning-in-place,
metal cleaning,
The ‘EC number’ means the Einecs, ELINCS or NLP number and is the official number of the substance within the European Union.
‘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.
‘ELINCS’ means the European List of Notified Chemical Substances. The ELINCS number can be obtained from the European List of Notified Substances, as amended.
‘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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/648/annex/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-648/annex-V
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.