Article 3

Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the substances and materials listed as extraction solvents in Annex I comply with the following general and specific purity criteria:

  1. (a)

    they shall not contain a toxicologically dangerous amount of any element or substance;

  2. (b)

    subject to any exceptions deriving from the specific purity criteria adopted in accordance with point (d) of Article 4, they shall not contain more than 1 mg/kg of arsenic or more than 1 mg/kg of lead;

  3. (c)

    they shall satisfy the specific purity criteria adopted in accordance with point (d) of Article 4.