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(4) By Decision 2010/571/EU Commission Decision 2010/571/EU of 24 September 2010 amending, for the purposes of adapting to scientific and technical progress, the Annex to Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exemptions for applications containing lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OJ L 251, 25.9.2010, p. 28). , the Commission granted, among other things, an exemption for the use of mercury in non-linear tri-band phosphor lamps with tube diameter > 17 mm (e.g. T9) (‘the exemption’), which is now listed as exemption 2(b)(3) in Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU. The exemption was to expire on 21 July 2016, in accordance with Article 5(2), second subparagraph, point (a), of that Directive.
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