COMMISSION THREATENS LEGAL ACTION OVER MIXTURES LAW

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice against Belgium, the Czech Republic and Greece, for not implementing European Union directive 2008/112/EC on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. It mandates safety labelling and collating information to protect the environment and human health from chemical mixtures, including cosmetics, soaps and their ingredients.

Ends


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.