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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 (‘CLP’)

OJ L353 31.12.2008, p.1
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:353:SOM:EN:HTML

• One of the key principles of the CLP Regulation is that it will be amended
in line with developments in the UN Globally Harmonized System of
Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (‘GHS’), agreed at UN level.

• Changes to the UN GHS are negotiated at 6-monthly meetings of the UN
Subcommittee of Experts on the GHS (‘UNSCEGHS’) in Geneva (the next
meeting is July this year) and are published through 2-yearly revisions to
the GHS ‘purple book’. The amendments will then be transferred to the
CLP Regulation through adaptations to technical progress (‘ATPs’).



ECOSOC
United Nations Economical & Social Council

Strategic
UN CE TDG GHS
United Nations Committee of Experts on the
Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the
Globally Harmonized System of Classification
and Labelling of Chemicals

Technical
UN SCE TDG UN SCE GHS
United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts
on the Transport of Dangerous Goods on the Globally Harmonized System
of Classification & Labelling of Chemicals
http://www.unece.org/trans/welcome.html http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/mandate_e.html



UN Globally Harmonized System of
Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

‘Purple Book’

• First Edition 2003
• First Revised Edition 2005
• Second Revised Edition 2007
• Third Revised Edition July 2009

http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_rev03/03files_e.html

The UN GHS is not a formal treaty, but instead is a non-legally
binding international agreement. Therefore countries (or trading
blocks, like the European Union) must establish legislation for their
jurisdiction in order to implement the UN GHS.



For the transport of dangerous goods, the UN GHS is implemented through the UN Model Regulations on the
Transport of Dangerous Goods (‘Orange Book’).

The second revised edition of the UN GHS is implemented through the 15th revised edition of the UN Model
Regulations, applicable during the period 2008-2009.

The third revised edition of the UN GHS will be implemented during the period 2010-2011, once the transport legal
instruments make mandatory the relevant provisions of the 16th revised edition of the UN Model Regulations.



HSE rational for UN GHS stakeholder meetings:

• Because developments at UN level will feed into the EU CLP Regulation
the Health & Safety Executive (‘HSE’) wishes to develop its
consultation with stakeholders on developments to the UN's Globally
Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals,

• To help achieve this the HSE organised an inaugural stakeholder meeting
(18th November 2009) prior to the December meeting of the United Nations
Subcommittee of Experts on the GHS (UNSCEGHS),

• The aim, to discuss and share views on the latest proposed developments
to the UN GHS to help inform the UK's negotiating position at the
UNSCEGHS,

• Subject to the level of interest, further meetings are proposed prior to
subsequent UNSCEGHS meetings.



Rational for the stakeholder meetings; to invite feedback on papers to the UN
GHS Subcommittee, which propose amendments to the UN GHS.
Agenda – meeting 18th November 2009

1. Introductions
2. Purpose and aims of meeting
3. Adoption of agenda
4. Discussion of working and INF documents submitted for UNSCEGHS meeting on 9-11 December
2010 (following UNSCEGHS agenda order)

Updating of the 3rd Revised edition of GHS

(a) Physical hazards
ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2009/8 - (EIGA) Correction to the criterion for flammability of gas mixtures in 2.2.5

(b) Health hazards
UN/SCEGHS/18/INF.3 - (Germany) Informal correspondence group on the revision of Chapters 3.2 and 3.3

(c) Environmental hazards
UN/SCEGHS/18/INF.4 - (European Commission) Proposal to consider the harmonisation of the criteria for
classification and labelling of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and
very bioaccumulative (vPvB) substances



Agenda – meeting 18th November 2009 (continued)

Hazard communication issues

ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2009/9 - (Germany and the United Kingdom and the European Industrial Gases
Association (EIGA)) Pictogram for gases under pressure
Draft INF paper on hazard communication for supply and use of non-flammable aerosols (FEA)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2009/11 - (Australia) Additional information on physical and chemical properties for
inclusion on the guidance on the preparation of Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Any Other Business

ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2009/10 - (Chairperson/secretariat) Publication of sector-specific guidance for the
application of the GHS

[Note: discussion will also take place on any further INF papers submitted prior to 18th November – please
check web links below for details]




5. Discussion of GHS-TDG corrosivity issue

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2009/50 - (United Kingdom) Comments on ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2009/15 and informal
document INF.3 submitted at the thirty-fifth session. Suggested text for implementation of GHS
criteria in Class 8 of the Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (Netherlands)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2009/15 - (The Netherlands) Suggested text for implementation of the GHS criteria in
Class 8 of the UN Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

UN/SCETDG/35/INF.3 - (The Netherlands) Addendum to ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2009/15

UN/SCETDG/36/INF.13 – (Germany) Implementation of Acute Toxicity Criteria of the GHS into Division 6.1
of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

UN/SCETDG/36/INF.xxx UN/SCEGHS/18/INF.xxx – (The Netherlands) Proposal for a way forward in the
discussion on the implementation of the GHS criteria for corrosivity in the UN Model Regulations for
Transport for consideration by the Working Group on corrosivity




6. Arrangements for receiving comments on late papers

7. Brief update on recent CLP activities

8. Review of meeting and plans for the future

9. AOB



Documents - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (‘UNECE’)
http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/danger.htm
↓
Meeting Documents - ECOSOC Bodies
↓
Sub-Committee on GHS (‘UNSCEGHS’)
↓
Working Documents (formal proposals for adoption by the GHS Subcommittee)
http://www.unece.org/trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc4/c42009.html

http://www.unece.org/trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc4/c42010.html
↓
Informal documents (proposals at earlier stages of development)
http://www.unece.org/trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc4/c4inf17.html

http://www.unece.org/trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc4/c4inf18.html



HSE follow up to the UN GHS stakeholder meeting held November 18th 2009:

• Summary of meeting circulated to attendees,

• Summary of the outcomes of the meeting of the UN Subcommittee of
Experts on the GHS (UNSCEGHS) which took place from 9th -11th
December 2009, circulated to attendees.

Next HSE UN GHS stakeholder meeting is planned for 9th June 2010, prior
to the next UNSCEGHS meeting in July 2010.

N.B.
- Meeting facilities are likely to limit attendees to circa 30.
- Attendance is by invitation.
- The HSE expect those attending to make a contribution to the debate.


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