. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/151/Add.2 
19 March 2009  
 (09-1378) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
 The following communication, dated 13 March 2009, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the European Communities
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The European Communities would like to inform  the Members of the TBT Committee of the 
draft Commission Regulation amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific 
progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on 
classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 
67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and ame nding Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. 
The purpose of this draft proposal for a first adaptation to technical progress of Regulation 
(EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and pack aging of substances and mixtures (“the CLP 
Regulation”) (Notification G/TBT/N/EEC/163) is to amend Annex VI to the CLP Regulation in order 
to transfer to that Annex the harmonised classifi cations recently adopted under existing legislation 
(Directive 2008/58/EC of 21 August and Direct ive 2009/2/EC of 15 January 2009). The draft 
proposals of these Directives have been notif ied under the TBT Agreement (Notifications 
G/TBT/N/EEC/151 and G/TBT/N/EEC/212) and discussed at several TBT Committee meetings. 
As a certain period of time will be necessary to  allow operators to adapt the labelling and 
packaging of substances and mixtures to the new clas sifications set out in this Regulation, companies 
have to classify, label and packag e in accordance with the classificati ons contained in this Regulation 
only by 1 December 2010. However, the classifications  in this Regulation may be applied earlier than 
this date, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No  1272/2008, and companies may adapt the labelling 
and packaging accordingly. 
Relevant documents:  
− Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and 
mixtures, amending and repealing Directiv es 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending 
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1.) (Notification 
G/TBT/N/EEC/163); 
− http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:354:0060:0061:EN:PDF
; 
− Commission Directive 2008/58/EC amending, for the purpose of its adaptation to technical 
progress, for the 30th time, Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions rela ting to the classification, packaging and 
labelling of dangerous substances (Notification G/TBT/N/EEC/151); 
− http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:246:0001:0191:EN:PDF
; 
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  − Commission Directive amending, for the purpose of its adaptation to technical progress, for 
the 31st time, Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations 
and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of 
dangerous substances (Notification G/TBT/N/EEC/212)  http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:011:0006:0082:EN:PDF
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The text of the draft Regulation is available on the EC-TBT website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
 and can be downloaded through:  Link 1
, Link 2 , Link 3 , Link 4 , Link 5  and Link 6 . 
 
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