Last 10th January 2020, was published the definitive text of the Regulation (EU) 2020/11 (shall apply from 1 January 2020) which amends the Regulation 1272/2008 (CLP), specifically the Annex VIII. This annex refers to the harmonised information necessary to provide a sanitary response in case of emergency and the preventive measures.

On 29th November the resolution of the last meeting held between the Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP (CARACAL) was published. The European commission agreed on amending the text for the CLP Annex VIII, which refers to harmonised toxicological notifications and the use of the UFI code. The new draft includes several amendments where the most relevant ones are:

The trade bloc of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar) expects to adopt the UN GHS (Globally Harmonized System) on classification and labelling of hazardous chemicals by mid next year.

Although many countries are still updating and even implementing the seventh revised edition of the GHS, the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals has published the GHS (Revision 8), approved on December 7th, 2018, updating the seventh revised edition of the GHS, which include:

In SIAM we are committed to expansion and that our products reach as many customers as possible. That is why we are pleased to announce the collaboration with PU Consulting AB. This will allow customers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and the Baltic countries Estonia Lithuania and Latvia to have our programs closer, in order to generate and distribute their safety data sheets.