Dangerous substances: classification, packaging and labelling (amend. Directive 67/548/EEC)

The common position of the Council made two changes in relation to the text proposed by the Commission: - a change of wording: the Member States would 'permit' (rather than 'authorize') the placing on the market, until 21/12/2000, of substances labelled with the 'EEC number' and the words 'EEC label'; - an extension of the deadline for transposition of the Directive: 01/06/1998 (instead of 01/06/1997). �