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8 January 2021  
(21-0321) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  8 January 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the European Union . 
 
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Title: Draft Commission Regulation amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and 
scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on 
classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures and correcting Commission 
Regulation (EU) 2018/669  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[  ] Comment period changed - date:   
[  ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[  ] Notified measure published - date:  
[  ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[  ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed  
Draft Commission Delegated Regulation correcting Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 
1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and 
packaging of substances and mixtures  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/EEC/21_0305_00_e.pdf  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):  07/03/2021  
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[  ] Other:  
 
Description:   
The notified draft amends Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/217 of 4 October 2019 
amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 
1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging 
of substances and mixtures and correcting that Regulation (G/TBT/N/EU/629 ). 
https://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32020R0217&qid=1605195449312  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.  G/TBT/ N/EU/ 629/Add.2  
 
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  The amendments concern the following:  
On p. 12 of the Comm ission Delegated Regulation, in Point 2 of Annex III, the 3 first lines, 7th column 
(labelling): the signal word 'Dgr' should be replaced by the signal word 'Wng'.  
The text of the amended draft Commission Regulation is available on the EU -TBT 
website:   http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/  and also at  
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