EU dangerous substances

Current restrictions List II for inclusion in the EU Dangerous Substances Directive To be considered for inclusion under the UNEP Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Chemical (PIC) Banned in five countries Use restricted in four . ... 

Table 12 Classification and labelling according to the EU Dangerous substances directive...

The use of lead in consumer end products is increasingly restricted due to findings which resulted in a listing/classification/labelling with a risk phrase R62 (R62=Risk of impaired fertility) according to EU dangerous substances directive. 

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. 

A system of classification is given in the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances, Regulations, 1984 (United Kingdom), which is based on European Union (EU) guidelines for example ... 

EEA - European Environmental Agency (2003) Waste from electric and electronic equipment -quantities, dangerous substances and treatment methods. http //eea.eioneLeuropa.eu/Public/irc/ eionet-circle/etc waste/library l=/working j>apers/weeepdf/ EN 1.0 a=d. Accessed 12 Nov 2010... 

EU (2003) Directive 2003/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2003 amending for the 26th time Council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (nonylphenol, nonylphenol ethoxylate and cement). Off J L178/24... 

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 concept of a safety case comes from the requirements of the European Union/European Community (EU/EC) Seveso Directive (82/501/EC) and, in particular, regulations that the United Kingdom and other member states used to implement that directive. United Kingdom regulations (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards [CIMAH], 1984 replaced by Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances [COMAH] in 1999) require that major hazardous facilities produce a safety report or safety case.64 The requirement for a safety case is initiated by a list of chemicals and a class of flammables. Like the hazard analysis approach (Section 8.1.2), experts identify the reactive hazards of the process if analysis shows that the proposed process is safe, it may be excluded from additional regulatory requirements. 

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

Chemical agents Directive. Gives provisions on how to assess the risk from the handling of dangerous substances on the workplace in order to protect workers adequately (EU, 1998b). 

Safety Data Sheet Directive. Gives provisions on how and in which format to communicate information on dangerous substances and preparations (EU, 1991). 

The Seveso Directive. Sets provisions for workplaces stocking certain amounts of dangerous substances (EU, 1996). 

EU (1996) Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances. Official Journal L 010,14/01/1997 P. 0013 - 0033... 

Coimcil Directive 2006/102/EC of 20 November 2006 adapting Directive 67/548/ EEC on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, http // eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/ site/en/ oj/2006/l 363/l 36320061220en02410343. pdf. Accessed 12 Feb 2012... 

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... 

In the EU and several other countries the legislation regulates the notification of new substances, classification, packaging, labeling and possible prohibition of dangerous substances, the safety of the work place, and the use of chemicals for more sensitive purposes, such as in foodstuffs, drugs, cosmetics, and consumer goods. 

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