Advancing chemical safety: the impact of new hazard classes in the CLP Regulation

Safer Chemicals Podcast

The Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation, also known as the CLP Regulation, requires companies to classify, label and package their hazardous chemicals appropriately before placing them on the EU market to protect health and the environment but also to ensure free movement of substances, mixtures and article.

In this episode, the host Päivi Jokiniemi and the head of ECHA’s Hazard classification unit, Paul Ryan, talk about the amendment that introduced new hazard classes to the regulation – these entered into force in April 2023.

They will also discuss the ongoing CLP revision that is one of the key deliverables of the European Commission’s Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. While it aims to update and optimise the regulation by ensuring that dangerous chemicals are properly identified, labelled and classified, it is also an important element in Europe’s move towards a toxic free environment.

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• New hazard classes 2023

• Existing guidance for CLP

• ECHA-EFSA guidance on endocrine disruption

• REACH guidance: Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment – chapter R.11: PBT/vPvB assessment

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Chapters

1. Introduction of the guest and the topic to be discussed in this episode. (00:01:06)

2. What is the CLP about and how is it linked to other chemicals laws? (00:01:58)

3. What are the new hazard classes? (00:04:10)

4. How does adding these new hazards to CLP help improve chemicals management or the safety of chemicals? (00:06:14)

5. Have the Member States already made proposals for harmonised classification and labelling with the new hazard classes? (00:07:45)

6. What do the companies need to take in consideration now that the new hazard classes have entered in force? (00:08:41)

7. What are the poison centres? (00:09:28)

8. When can companies start sending information on the new hazards to ECHA? (00:10:00)

9. What kind of help is available for companies? (00:10:52)

10. What changes does the CLP revision proposed by the Commission introduce? (00:13:20)

11. What does "substances with more than one constituent" mean? (00:15:18)

12. Links to further info can be found in the episode description. (00:18:17)