D10: Impact of Contaminants - Hydromod

Integrated Water Resource Management for Important Deep European Lakes and their Catchment Areas
EUROLAKES
D10: Impact of Contaminants
FP5_Contract No.: EVK1-CT1999-00004
Version: 4.0
Date: 25/07/01
File: D10-vers.4.0.doc
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— Pesticides prioritised under Council Directive 91/414/EEC (and specified under Council Regulation
3600/92),
— Monitored substances not mentioned on any of the lists above (based on the monitoring data obtained
from Member States.
For the second run of COMMPS substances which are suspected to restrictions or not
used in the member states so-called "historic pollutants" were deleted from the list.
The following selection procedure obtained:
— Risk assessment for existing chemical substances according to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 793/93
(recent [draft] reports), the Council Directive 91/414/EEC about plant protective agents and the Council
Directive 98/8/EU about biocides,
— Targeted risk-based assessment in accordance with Council Directive No. 793/93/EEC with solely
survey on aquatic ecotoxicity and human toxicity via the aquatic environment,
— Or, where this proves impracticable within the time scale to simplify a risk-based assessment procedure
based on scientific principles taking particular account of:
— Evidence regarding the intrinsic hazard of the substances concerned, in particular its aquatic ecotoxicity
and human toxicity via aquatic exposure routes,
— Evidence from monitoring of widespread environmental contamination, and
— Other proven factors indicating the possibility of widespread environmental contamination, such as
production or use volume of the substance concerned as well as use pattern.
Because of basic differences between metals and organic compounds the position table
for metals are compiled independent from the lists for organic compounds.
The final result for the COMMPS value of the impacts to the aquatic environment describes
the relative risk for the aquatic area. At the COMMPS procedure the value is
calculated as the product of the exposure of the aquatic environment and of the impacts
to the aquatic environment. Because a substance with a high tendency to accumulate
in the sediment occurs in the water only in smidgens a separate list had to be
compiled.
At the compilation and revision of the list of priority substances the Commission will be
take into account any available information. That particularly apply for recommendations
from the Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment
(CSTEE), the Member States, the European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) and the industry
and other stakeholders. As mentioned before the COMMPS list will replace the list I of
the Council Directive 76/646/EEC and after its publication it will became to the Annex X
of the Water Framework Directive [2000/60/EC (23. October 2000), FRAUNHOFER
INSTITUTE (98/788/3040/DEB/E1) (1999), COM (2000) 47 final].
In the Annex of the Proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision establishing
the list of priority substances in the field of water policy (COM (2000) 47 final) is
a list with 32 substances especially groups of substances. This list is compiled on the
basis of the COMMPS procedure after a publicly and transparent discussion with the
interested parties.
CAS
EU
Name
number
number
1 15972-60-8 240-110-8 Alachlor
2 120-12-7 204-371-1 Antracene