Recital 10

Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2023/171 of 28 October 2022 amending, for the purposes of adapting to scientific and technical progress, Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for hexavalent chromium as an anticorrosion agent in gas absorption heat pumps (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(10) Research efforts to find possibilities for reducing the hexavalent chromium content and/or to substitute or eliminate the use of hexavalent chromium will foreseeably require more than 5 years. Thus, it is appropriate to grant the requested exemption until 31 December 2026, in accordance with Article 5(2), first subparagraph, of Directive 2011/65/EU.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-17 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.