CLP

CLP — Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures

The CLP Regulation (CE) 1272/2008 aligns previous EU legislation with the GHS (Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals), a United Nations system to identify hazardous chemicals and to inform users about these hazards. It also has links to the REACH legislation. The CLP Regulation  entered into force on 20 January 2009 and progressively replaced the classification and labelling of Dangerous Substances (67/548/EEC) and Dangerous Preparations (1999/45/EC) Directives. Both directives were repealed on 1 June 2015.

• Regulation (CE) 1272/2008
• REACH legislation

GHS  has been adopted by many countries around the world and is now also used as the basis for international and national transport regulations for dangerous goods.

The hazards of chemicals are communicated through signal words and pictograms on labels and safety data sheets.

New red-framed pictograms replace the familiar orange danger symbols.

New terms have replaced old ones:

• mixtures for preparations
• hazardous for dangerous
• pictograms for symbols
• hazard statements for risk phrases
• precautionary statements for safety phrases
• signal Words(e.g. Danger, Warning) replace the Indications of Danger.