The Swedish Presidency of the EU Council is keen to make progress on the proposal to amend the regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures (Regulation 1272/2008/EC, known as the ‘CLP’ regulation) in order to bring it into line with the latest scientific knowledge, to better protect human health and the environment and to make life easier for economic operators.
On 8 June, it submitted a revised compromise proposal to the Member States, incorporating the answers to the last outstanding questions. Seen by EUROPE, the new version of this compromise makes marginal changes to the text detailed in our newsletter at the beginning of June (see EUROPE 13191/23), which has the support of the Member States.
The revised draft compromise clarifies the requirements relating to the shape and design of fold-out labels, incorporating the suggestions made by the various delegations. It sets out the elements that must at least appear on the front page of these labels, such as:
- the name, address and telephone number of the supplier(s);
- the nominal quantity of the substance or mixture in the packaging made available to the general public, unless this quantity is specified elsewhere on the packaging;
- the product identifiers for substances and mixtures;
- where applicable, the hazard pictograms, the signal words in all the languages of the label used in the inner pages, the unique formula identifier, unless it is printed or affixed on the inner packaging (in accordance with point 5.3, part A of Annex VIII of the regulation).
The latest version of the draft compromise also specifies, among other things, the conditions under which the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts to include in an annex to the regulation the labelling elements that can only appear on a digital label.
View the latest changes to the draft compromise: https://aeur.eu/f/7kw (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)