European Dangerous Substances

The 28 Adaptation to Technical Progress in relation to the European Dangerous Substances Directive (67/548/EEC), has now classified CIT/MIT in any preparation equal to or greater than 15 parts per million to be a sensitiser. Since many formulations will require more than 15 ppm of CIT/MIT, it will make it more difficult to use this chemistry (and not put hazard labels arising from CIT/MIT use) and achieve technical success. 

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... 

European Commission for these and other substances by nominated dates. The toxicological data and estimation of exposure will form the basis of risk analysis and deterrnination of the appropriate restriction and control of substances in the workplace (58). Restriction of the sales of dangerous substances and preparations to the general pubHc is enforced under Directive 76/769 EC (59). 

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... 

European Council (1976) Directive 76/464/EEC 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the community. Official Journal of the European Communities... 

CEC. 1978. Organotin compounds. Pages 1-18 in Noxious Effects of Dangerous Substances in the Aquatic Environment. Comm. European Commun., Environ. Consumer Serv., Rustenborgvej 7, 2800 Copenhagen, Denmark. 

EEC, Seventh Amendment to EEC Directive 67/548/EEC, "Directive on Classification, Packaging, and Labelling of Dangerous Substances," European Union Commission, Brussels, Belgium (June 5,1992). 

Seveso II directive [96/082/EEC], 1996. Council Directive of December 9, 1996 on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, The council of the European union. 

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. 

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. 

Council of the European Communities (1980) Directive 80/68/EEC on the protection of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangerous substances. Off J Eur Community L 20 43... 

Some specific needs refer to fields of particular importance, e.g. food quality including all relevant issues consumer goods governed by the New Approach Directives and relevant harmonised European standards the protection of the enviromnent and the quality of life as well as the economic concerns of the consumers dangerous substances and preparations and their impact on human beings, animals and the environment forensic science. 

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). 

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