Press Release: First public consultation on harmonised classification and labelling

Suppliers of chemicals (substances and mixtures) across the Europe have a legal obligation to evaluate the hazards of chemicals and to classify and label them in an appropriate way before placing them on the market.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), on 23 February 2009, published on its website the first public consultation on a proposal to harmonise the classification and labelling of two chemical substances, epoxiconazole and diantimony trioxide . In this case, the proposal for harmonisation came from the Swedish authorities.