Source: SPECIALIST PRINTING WORLDWIDE : ISSUE 4: 2011
Future deadlines related to hazardous substances and the first update to the ATP of 2009 are scrutinised by Elaine Campling
The European Commission has issued a draft third adaptation to technical and scientific progress (ATP) of the CLP Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008. This is the first update of harmonised classifications since the first ATP of 2009, containing amendments and some new entries to Part 3 of Annex VI. Part 3 of Annex VI contains two lists (Tables) of hazardous substances with harmonised classification and labelling (C&L). Table 3.1 comprises the substances with harmonised C&L based on the CLP Regulation, while Table 3.2 is the list of hazardous substances with harmonised C&L based on the criteria set out in Annex VI to the Dangerous Substances Directive (DSD), 67/548/EEC.
Transitional arrangements have been put in place with a compliance date of 1 June 2013. Transitional arrangements are necessary to ease the burden of stock re-labelling, i.e. for existing stock to pass through the supply chain, and also to provide time for operators to comply with their registration obligations (in accordance with the REACH Regulation, (EC) No. 1907/2006) for substances with newly harmonised classifications in the following categories:
