Commission Regulation (EU) No 487/2013 of 8 May 2013 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 Text with EEA relevance

Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 14(2), point (c) is deleted; (2) in Article 23, the following point (f) is added: ‘(f) substances or mixtures classified as corrosive to metals but not corrosive to skin and/or eyes.’; (3) Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation; (4) Annex II is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation; (5) Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation; (6) Annex IV is amended in accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation; (7) Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation; (8) Annex VI is amended in accordance with Annex VI to this Regulation; (9) Annex VII is amended in accordance with Annex VII to this Regulation.

1 By way of derogation from the second paragraph of Article 3, substances and mixtures may, before 1 December 2014 and 1 June 2015 respectively, be classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation.

2 By way of derogation from the second paragraph of Article 3, substances classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and placed on the market before 1 December 2014, shall not be required to be relabelled and repackaged in accordance with this Regulation until 1 December 2016.

3 By way of derogation from the second paragraph of Article 3, mixtures classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council or Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and placed on the market before 1 June 2015, shall not be required to be relabelled and repackaged in accordance with this Regulation until 1 June 2017.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply in respect of substances from 1 December 2014 and in respect of mixtures from 1 June 2015.