. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/36 
16 April 2012  
 (12-1996) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Aerosol dispensers 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Directive amending Council Directive 75/324/EE C on the approximation of the laws of the 
Member States relating to aerosol dispensers in order to adapt its labelling provisions to 
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and 
mixtures (5 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Directive intends to align the labelling 
provisions of Directive 75/ 324/EEC to the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of 
the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2008 on cl assification, labelling 
and packaging of substances and mixtures. Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 will repeal and 
replace as from 1 June 2015 Directive 67/548/EE C relating to the classification, packaging 
and labelling of dangerous substances and Direc tive 1999/45/EC relating to  the classi fication, 
packaging and labelling of dangerous prepara tions, which are currently the basis for the 
labelling requirements of Directive 75/324/EEC with regard to "flammable" and "extremely 
flammable" aerosol dispensers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
proposal intends to align the labelling provisions  of Directive 75/324/EEC to the provisions of 
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008. It will thus in crease consumer protection and safety, by 
providing for coherent and clearer labelling.  G/TBT/N/EU/36 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 75/324/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation 
of the laws of the Member States relating to aerosol dispensers ( OJ L 147, 9.6.1975, p. 40-47) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:1975:147:0040:0047:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
16 December 2008 on classification,  labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, 
amending and repealing Directives 67/548/ EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation 
(EC) No 1907/2006 ( OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1–1355)  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:353:0001:1355:EN:PDF  
Globally Harmonised System of Classifi cation and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Second half of 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption approx.). The provisions w ill be applicable as 
from 1 March 2014 as regards aerosol 
dispensers containing a substance and as from 
1 June 2015 as regards aerosol dispensers containing mixtures.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_1271_00_e.pdf