Directive 2006/121 - Amendment of 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 (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency - Main contents

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Legal instrument	Directive
Number legal act	Directive 2006/121
Original proposal	COM(2003)644
CELEX number i	32006L0121

L 396/850 EN Official Journal of the European Union 30.12.2006

DIRECTIVE 2006/121/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 18 December 2006

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 (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee¹,

After consulting the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty²,

OJ C 294, 25.11.2005, p. 38.

Opinion of the European Parliament of 17 November 2005 (OJ C 280 E, 18.11.2006, p. 440), Council Common Position of 27 June 2006 (OJ C 276 E, 14.11.2006, p. 252) and Position of the European Parliament of 13 December 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal).

Whereas:

In view of the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006¹, Directive 67/548/EEC² should be adapted and its rules on the notification and risk assessment of chemicals deleted,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 67/548/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

• 1) 

  in Article 1, paragraph 1, points (a), (b) and (c) shall be deleted;

• 2) 

  in Article 2, paragraph 1, points (c), (d), (f) and (g) shall be deleted;

• 3) 

  Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:

"Article 3

Testing and assessment of the properties of substances

Tests on substances carried out within the framework of this Directive shall be conducted according to the requirements of Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency^*.

OJ L"; 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

See page 1 of this Official Journal.

OJ 196, 16.8.1967, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/73/EC (OJ L 152, 30.4.2004, p. 1). Corrected in OJ L 216, 16.6.2004, p. 3.

• 4) 

  Article 5 shall be amended as follows:

(a)    in paragraph 1, the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:

"Member States shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that substances cannot be placed on the market on their own or in preparations unless they have been packaged and labelled in accordance with Articles 22 to 25 of this Directive and with the criteria in Annex VI of this Directive, and, for registered substances, in accordance with the information obtained through the application of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, save in the case of preparations where provisions exist in other Directives.";

(b)    paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:

"2. The measures referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall apply until the substance is listed in Annex I or until a decision not to list it has been taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29.";

• 5) 

  Articles 7 to 15 shall be deleted;

• 6) 

  Article 16 shall be deleted;

• 7) 

  Articles 17 to 20 shall be deleted;

• 8) 

  Article 27 shall be deleted;

• 9) 

  Article 32 shall be replaced by the following:

"Article 32 References

References to Annexes VII A, VII B, VII C, VII D and VIII of this Directive shall be construed as references to the corresponding Annexes VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.";

• 10) 

  Annex V shall be deleted;

• 11) 

  Annex VI shall be amended as...

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