Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 of 23 October 2024, amending Regulation (EC) No.1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP), was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 20 November 2024. It will apply from 1 July 2026, with a derogation from certain rules for complex substances.
Among the new provisions that now have the force of law:
• The obligation for a supplier established in the EU to ensure the compliance of substances sold online by economic operators outside the EU
• The introduction of rules on the assessment and classification of so-called complex substances (containing more than one component), particularly when they are of natural origin
• The precision of the rules and deadlines for updating labels
• The possibility of digital labelling for certain information that is not essential for user safety or environmental protection
• The introduction of specific rules and conditions for refillable or bulk products
• The addition of the new hazard classes introduced by Regulation 2023/707 (EDs, PBTs, PMTs…)
• The possibility of grouping similar substances together in the classification proposal process
• The Commission’s power to propose classifications itself
• The update of the annexes for substances already identified as meeting the criteria for the new hazard classes
• The sharing with the general public of all the information notified to ECHA’s classification and labelling inventory
• The control of advertising for chemical substances (mandatory information, prohibition of claims such as “non-toxic”, “non-polluting”, “ecological”, etc.)
The text also stipulates …
