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10.6.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 158/1
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(Non-legislative acts)
REGULATIONS
COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 517/2013
of 13 May 2013
adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of
movement for persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and
phytosanitary policy, transport policy, energy, taxation, statistics, trans-European networks,
judiciary and fundamental rights, justice, freedom and security, environment, customs union,
external relations, foreign, security and defence policy and institutions, by reason of the
accession of the Republic of Croatia
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Croatia, and in
particular Article 3(4) thereof,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Croatia, and in
particular Article 50 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Pursuant to Article 50 of the Act of Accession of Croatia,
where acts of the institutions adopted prior to accession
require adaptation by reason of accession, and the
necessary adaptations have not been provided for in
that Act of Accession or its Annexes, the Council,
acting by qualified majority on a proposal from the
Commission, shall, to this end, adopt the necessary
acts, if the original act was not adopted by the
Commission.
(2) The Final Act of the Conference which drew up the
Treaty of Accession of Croatia indicated that the High
Contracting Parties had reached political agreement on a
set of adaptations to acts adopted by the institutions
required by reason of accession and invited the Council
and the Commission to adopt these adaptations before
accession, completed and updated where necessary to
take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.
(3) The Regulations and Decisions set out in this Regulation
should therefore be amended accordingly,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The following Regulations are amended as set out in the
Annex to this Regulation:
(a) in the field of the free movement of goods:
— Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006
concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation
and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a
European Chemicals Agency ( 1 ),
— Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008
on classification, labelling and packaging of substances
and mixtures ( 2 ),
— Regulation (EC) No 78/2009 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009
on the type-approval of motor vehicles with regard to
the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road
users ( 3 ), and
— Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011
on textile fibre names and related labelling and marking
of the fibre composition of textile products ( 4 );
( 1 ) OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 35, 4.2.2009, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ L 272, 18.10.2011, p. 1.