Chemicals: classification, labelling, packaging, adaptation to the REACH Regulation (amend. Directive 67/548/EEC)

PURPOSE: to amend Directive 67/548/EEC to take account of new provisions set out in the REACH Regulation.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2006/121/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances in order to adapt it to Regulation 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency.

CONTENT:  the purpose of this Directive is to amend Council Directive 67/548/EEC in order to bring its provisions on notification and risk assessment of chemicals into line with that of Regulation 1907/2006/EC (see COD/2003/0256). The rules on notification and risk assessment of chemicals have been deleted from Directive 67/548/EEC.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 19 January 2007. It will apply as from 1 June 2008.