Dangerous substances directive

In the European Union, coal-derived complex chemical substances, ie, those contained in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances, have been classified for carcinogenicity in the twenty-first adaptation to technical progress of the European Commission (EC) Dangerous Substances Directive 1994 67/548/EEC (57). The EC Regulation 793/93 requires data sets to be submitted by producers or importers to the... 

EC 21st Adaptation to Technical Progress of the Dangerous Substances Directive 67/548/EEC (to be pubHshed). 

EC Directive adapting to technical progress on the classification of dangerous substances Directive 67/... 

Appendix 1 contains a number of references and links to chemical lists and resources to help identify chemicals of concern. In addition, it maybe useful to review the criteria used to classify substances via EU s Dangerous Substance Directive (67/548/EEC), Environment Canada s Ecological Categorization of Substances on the Domestic Substances List, or Health Canada s Categorization of Substances on the Domestic Substances List when establishing your organization s criteria for selecting chemicals of concern. 

It does have a number of draw backs. It has poor thermal stability (a property common to most formaldehyde release biocides) and, in some instances, may cause blackening of metalworking fluid concentrates if heated above 50°C for a period of time. Recently, this active ingredient was placed on Annex 1 of the Dangerous Substances Directive having been identified as a potential skin sensitiser. This means that formulations containing efficacious levels of this class of triazine in them would have to be labelled with R43 - may cause sensitisation by skin contact. This is unacceptable to many UK customers. As this material is only bactericidal, it needs to be co-formulated with a fungicide to provide complete protection for a product. 

PCMC has been placed on Annex 1 of the Dangerous Substances Directive having been identified as a potential skin sensitiser. 

EEC, On the Control of Major-Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances, Directive 96/82/EC, Brussels, 1996. 

Council Directive 92/32/EEC (392), the Seventh Amendment of the Dangerous Substances Directive (DSD) (391), Council Directive 67/548/EEC, requires pre-marketing notification of new chemical substances. Notification ensures that sufficient information is available on the hazardous properties of new substances for labelling and risk assessment (see Section 14) which will ensure the necessary control measures are in place (67). 

A review is given of the relationships between coatings, regulations and the environment. Mention is made of classification and labelling, the dangerous substances directive, the dangerous preparations directive, market restrictions, occupational exposure limits, and solvent controls. 11 refs. 

THE 21 DIRECTIVE ON THE ADAPTATION TO TECHNICAL PROGRESS OF THE DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES DIRECTIVE... 

Harmonised carcinogenity classifications were recently agreed by EU Member States for many petroleum substances and have been published in the 21 st Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP) of the Dangerous Substances Directive. The Directive was issued in December 1994 and... 

The European Community s Dangerous Substances Directive, DSD (67/548/EEC), was originally adopted in 1967. It regulates the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances. Up until Spring 1992, six amendments have been adopted. A proposed seventh amendment appeared in February 1990, but it was not until April 1992 that it was finally adopted. The major differences between the requirements of the current directive and those which will apply once the seventh amendment is implemented are outlined. 

Dangerous Substance Directive. Gives provisions on how to classify, package and label the individual dangerous substances that goes into the paint product (EU, 1967). 

Benzene (CAS No 71-43-2) will not normally be present, but always be less than the 0.1% w/w marker level in the 21st ATP to the Dangerous Substance Directive. Barbeque Lighting Eluid is not classified as a carcinogen under 67/548/EEC and the UK CHIP Regulations. 

In the chemical safety report, the hazard assessment of a particular substance is based on the data set provided in the technical dossier. This contains substance-specific information on physicochemical properties as well as on toxicological and ecotoxicological hazards. One objective of the hazard assessment is the substance s hazard identification, which comprises the determination of its physicochemical and hazardous properties for the purpose of classification. Concerning human health hazards, both human and nonhuman information is taken into consideration and evaluated with respect to the classification criteria laid down in the Dangerous Substances Directive and in the CLP Regulation, respectively. However, in most cases human data do not exist, so the hazard identification has to be based on data from animal experiments. With respect to teratogenicity, this hazardous property may in principle be detected in the following toxicity studies ... 

In 1979 the sixth amendment to the dangerous substances directive (79/831/ EEC) introduced a notification system for new substances and made provision for the publication of an inventory of existing substances, the latter being those substances on the European market by 18 September 1981. The European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances (EINECS) was published in 1990 and lists 100,106 substances (SLIM, 1999). A decade later some 30,000 or so of these substances were thought to be marketed in volumes of above 1 tonne per year, these accounting for more than 99 per cent of the total volume of all substances on the EU market (CEC, 2001, p6). 

The types of harm that chemicals have the capacity to cause (in other words their hazards) are qualitatively different and not commensurate with each other. At one extreme are effects that require reasonably high concentrations of the substance, are immediate and localized (for example flammability, explosivity, corrosiveness and acute toxicity). The causal relationship between a particular chemical exposure and such effects is usually obvious, or at least easy to demonstrate. Those affected generally include those who deal directly with the chemical and it is often possible to handle and store the chemical in such a way that harm is avoided. The existing European Union (EU) regulatory system, dating from the 1967 dangerous substances directive (Council Directive 67/548/EEC) was clearly set up with... 

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