This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 3 May 2023.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1 .

( 2 ) https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/e70aee23-157b-b2a4-2cae-c42a1278072c (report); https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/cc1c37a8-22f9-7a7a-cb33-5c29edba7094 (annex).

( 3 ) Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives ( OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3 ).

( 4 ) EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM); Scientific Opinion on Lead in Food. EFSA Journal 2010; 8(4):1570.

( 5 ) VinylPlus progress report of 2017, p. 14; see https://vinylplus.eu/uploads/downloads/VinylPlus_Progress_Report_2017.pdf

( 6 ) https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/86b00b9e-2852-d8d4-5fd7-be1e747ad7fa

( 7 ) https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/86b00b9e-2852-d8d4-5fd7-be1e747ad7fa

( 8 ) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Closing The Loop – An EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy. COM/2015/0614 final.

( 9 ) European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2020 on the draft Commission regulation amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards lead and its compounds ( OJ C 294, 23.7.2021, p. 2 ).

( 10 ) Standard EN 15343:2007 on Plastics – Recycled Plastics – Plastics recycling traceability and assessment of conformity and recycled content, approved by the European Committee for Standardization on 2 November 2007.

( 11 ) European Commission v Kingdom of Sweden , Case C-389/19 P, ECLI:EU:C:2021:131.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2023/923 of 3 May 2023 amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards lead and its compounds in PVC ANNEX