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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1182 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures
Jurisdiction: EU
Commencement: 1st July 2020, but doesn’t apply until 1st March 2022
Amends: Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures
Mini Summary
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures introduces a globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals into European law. It supplements the REACH Regulation for the registration, assessment, authorisation and restrictions concerning chemical substances. The Regulations require that substances and mixtures are classified according to the physical hazards, the health hazards or the environmental hazards that they create. They also detail the labelling and packaging requirements.
Amendment
The list of harmonised classification and labelling of hazardous substances in Part III of Annex VI is updated, to remove or insert multiple chemicals. This is following the conclusion of opinions issued by the Committee for Risk Assessment of the Agency (RAC) for these substances.
Additionally, new scientific data has been made available, suggesting that the current available data may not be appropriate for:
- the hazard class for ‘acute toxicity (inhalation)’*; and
- the environmental classification for lead massive (lead with a particle diameter of ≥ 1mm).
Therefore, until the RAC issues a revised opinion of the new data, the hazard class will not be modified and lead massive will not be included in Annex VI.
*acute toxicity (inhalation) substances cause an adverse response from one or multiple doses within 4 hours of inhalation.
The amendments to Annex VI will come into effect on 1st March 2022.
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