New EU substances regulation expected by Christmas

packagingnews.co.uk: "The European Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (CLP) is expected to be published by the end of the year.

The regulation will bring all of the proposals on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances, agreed at the 2002 UN World Summit held in Johannesburg, into European law.

The regulation was recently adopted by European Parliament and Council and is expected to come into force by the end of December."