Health and Safety: Commission refers Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the EU over failure to transpose Packaging & Labelling Directive into national law

On the 22 July 2016, the European Commission decided to refer Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the failure to notify the transposition of the Directive on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) of substances and mixtures (Directive 2014/27/EU) into its national legislation.

This CLP Regulation had entered into force on 20 January 2009 and aligns the Union system of classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures to the United Nations Globally Harmonised System (GHS).

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU Member States approve world-wide rules for labelling of chemicals http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eu-member-states-approve-world-wide-rules-for-labelling-of-chemicals/

ESO: Background information: Chemicals at work: a new labelling system. Guidance to help employers and workers to manage the transition to the new classification, labelling and packaging system http://www.europeansources.info/record/chemicals-at-work-a-new-labelling-system-guidance-to-help-employers-and-workers-to-manage-the-transition-to-the-new-classification-labelling-and-packaging-system/

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