The revised CLP Regulation introduces a mechanism to integrate existing hazard identifications of substances to the list of harmonised classification and labelling entries, Annex VI to CLP. This is defined in CLP Article 37(7). There are specific rules for substances that have already been identified for some of the new hazard classes under the

• REACH Regulation,
• Plant Protection Products Regulation (PPPR) or
• Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR).

The purpose is to avoid duplication of work. Transitional periods are set out to integrate the outcome of completed and ongoing hazard assessments under such legislation into CLP.

The Commission can add substances directly to Annex VI to CLP, if they are already identified under the above-mentioned pieces of legislation as having

• Endocrine disrupting (ED) and/or
• PBT (persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic) / vPvB (very persistent, very bioaccumulative) properties.

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