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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE ../…/EC 
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amending, for the purpose of its adaptation  to technical progress, for the 31st time, 
Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approxi mation of the laws, regulations and 
administrative provisions relating to the cl assification, packaging and labelling of 
dangerous substances 
 
(Text with EEA relevance) 
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty esta blishing the European Community, 
Having regard to Council Directive 67/548/EEC  of 27 June 1967 on the approximation of the 
laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and 
labelling of dangerous substances 1, and in particular Article 28 thereof, 
Whereas: (1) Annex I to Directive 67/548/EEC contains a list of dangerous s ubstances, together 
with particulars of the classi fication and labelling of each substance. That list needs to 
be updated to include further notified new s ubstances and further existing substances, 
as well as to adapt certain entries to techni cal progress. In addition, it is necessary, in 
that Annex, to delete entr ies for certain substances. 
(2) The classification and labelli ng of the substances listed in this Directive should be 
reviewed if new scientific knowledge becomes available. In this respect, considering recent preliminary, partial and not peer-r eviewed information submitted by industry, 
special attention should be paid to th e outcome of the IA RC discussion of the 
classification of Nickel substances or any new relevant scientific findings or 
interpretations given to the data used to establish the cu rrent proposals for the Nickel 
compounds concerned by this Directive. 
(3) The measures provided for in this Directiv e are in accordance with the opinion of the 
Committee on the Adaptation to Technical Progress of the Directives for the 
Elimination of Technical Barriers to Trade with Dangerous Substances and Preparations, 
                                                
 
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16.8.1967, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2008/XX/EC (OJ L XX, XX.XX.2008, p. 1) EN 2   EN HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 
Article 1 
Article Directive 67/548/EEC  is amended as follows: 
1. Annex I is amended as follows : 
(a) The entries corresponding to the entries set out in Annex 1A are replaced by the 
entries set out in that Annex; 
(b) The entries set out in Anne x 1B to this Directive are in serted in accordance with 
the order of the entries set out in  Annex I to Directive 67/548/EEC; 
(c) The entries set out in Annex 1C to this Directive are deleted. 
Article 2 
2. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative 
provisions necessary to comply  with this Directive by 1 June 2009 at the latest. They 
shall forthwith communicate to the Commi ssion the text of those provisions and a 
correlation table between those pr ovisions and th is Directive. 
When Member States adopt those provisions,  they shall contain a reference to this 
Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determin e how such reference is to be made. 
3. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions 
of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive. 
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the tw entieth day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of  the European Union . 
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States. 
Done at Brussels, […] 
 For the Commission 
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 Member of the Commission