Commission Regulation (EU) No 944/2013 of 2 October 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) Annex IV is amended in accordance with the Annex I to this Regulation; (2) Part 3 of Annex VI is amended as follows: (a) Table 3.1 is amended as follows: (i) The entries set out in Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 corresponding to the entries set out in Annex II to this Regulation are replaced by the entries set out in Annex II to this Regulation; (ii) The entries set out in Annex III to this Regulation are inserted in accordance with the order of the entries set out in Table 3.1. (b) Table 3.2 is amended as follows: (i) The entries set out in Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 corresponding to the entries set out in Annex IV to this Regulation are replaced by the entries set out in in Annex IV to this Regulation; (ii) The entries set out in Annex V to this Regulation are inserted in accordance with the order of the entries set out in Table 3.2.

1 By way of derogation from Article 3(2) 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 Article 3(2), 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 Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation until 1 December 2016.

3 By way of derogation from Article 3(2) 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 Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation until 1 June 2017.

4 By way of derogation from Article 3(3) the harmonised classifications set out in Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, as amended by this Regulation, may be applied before the dates referred to in Article 3(3).

1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

2 Article 1(1) shall apply in respect of substances from 1 December 2014 and in respect of mixtures from 1 June 2015.

3 Article 1(2) shall apply from 1 January 2015 for all entries except for the entry pitch, coal tar, high-temp. (EC Number 266-028-2), for which Article 1 shall apply from 1 April 2016.