To further ensure legal certainty and prevent waste, it is important that economic operators be able, for a limited period after the date of application of this Regulation, to sell stock that is not yet in the distribution chain. To that end, transitional arrangements should also be made that allow the placing on the market of detergents and surfactants that are not yet in the distribution chain at the date of application of this Regulation, without those products having to comply with this Regulation, provided that they comply with Regulation (EC) No 648/2004. Manufacturers and importers should therefore be able to place on the market such detergents and surfactants, namely stock that is not yet in the distribution chain, after the date of application of this Regulation. Given the objective of that transitional period, that possibility should be strictly limited in time to one year after that date and, in particular, it should not be possible to make such stock available on the market after that one-year period.
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