10.6.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 1471 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 19 May 2005 adopting Community import decisions for certain chemicals pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 304/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Decisions 2000/657/EC, 2001/852/EC and 2003/508/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/416/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 304/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals ('), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof, After consulting the Committee established by Article 29 of Council Directive 67/548EEC of 27 June 1967 on the approx- imation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (?), Whereas: (1)  Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 304/2003, the Commission is to decide on behalf of the Community, whether or not to permit the import into the Community of each chemical subject to the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure. (2)  The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have been appointed to provide secretariat services for the operation of the PIC procedure established by the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) (") OJ L 63, 6.3.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 775/2004 (O] L 123, 27.4.2004, p. 27). () OJ 196, 16.8.1967, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/73JEC (O] L 152, 30.4.2004, p. 1). procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade, approved by the Community by Council Decision 2003/106/EC of 19 December 2002 concerning the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade (). (3)  The Commission, acting as common designated authority, is required to forward decisions on chemicals to the Secretariat of the PIC procedure, on behalf of the Community and its Member States. (4 It is necessary to amend previous import decisions in relation to the chemicals aldrin, chlordane, chlordi- meform, DDT, dieldrin, dinoseb and its salts and esters, EDB (1,2-dibromoethane), ethylene oxide, fluoroace- tamide, HCH (mixed isomers), heptachlor, hexachloro- benzene, lindane, methamidophos pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),  polychlorinated  terphenyls  (PCTs) and toxaphene in order to reflect the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004 as well as to take account of regulatory developments in the Community since those decisions were adopted. (5) The chemicals aldrin, chlordane, chlordimeform, DDT, dieldrin, dinoseb and its salts and esters, EDB (1,2-dibro- moethane), fluoroacetamide, HCH (mixed isomers), heptachlor, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and poly- chlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) were the subject of Community import decisions that were first published in PIC Circular V reporting the situation as at 30 June 1995. () O] L 63, 6.3.2003, p. 27.