Recital 18

(18)Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council ⁹ contains exemptions, limited in scope and duration, from the restriction for certain specific materials or components. Those exemptions cater for the situation where substitution is not possible from a scientific and technical point of view, where the negative environmental, health and consumer safety impacts caused by substitution are likely to outweigh the environmental, health and consumer safety benefits of the substitution, or where the reliability of substitutes is not ensured. The generic criteria for determining whether an economic activity causes no significant harm to pollution prevention and control should therefore allow for the use of those exemptions.