Ordinance
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Ordinance, ChemO)

¹ For pre­par­a­tions that were pack­aged and la­belled in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 35–50 of the Chem­ic­als Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005¹²² be­fore the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance, the fol­low­ing trans­ition­al pro­vi­sions ap­ply:

a.

They may be sup­plied un­til 31 May 2017 if a safety data sheet was com­piled for them in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 19 of this Or­din­ance and they were re­por­ted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 48 of this Or­din­ance; if the pre­par­a­tions con­cerned are li­quid laun­dry de­ter­gents con­tained in sol­uble pack­aging for private users which do not meet the re­quire­ments of Reg­u­la­tion (EU)
No 1297/2014¹²³, they may only be sup­plied un­til 31 Decem­ber 2015.

b.

Double la­belling in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 35–50 of the Chem­ic­als Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005 and with Art­icle 10 of the present Or­din­ance is not per­miss­ible.

c.

For hand­ling, the pro­vi­sions of Title 4 of this Or­din­ance ap­ply.

² Aer­o­sol dis­pensers that were pack­aged and la­belled be­fore the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance, do not fall with­in the scope of the FoodA¹²⁴ and do not meet the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 9 and 11 may be sup­plied un­til 31 May 2017.

³ If a pre­par­a­tion that was la­belled in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 39–50 of the Chem­ic­als Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005 in the ver­sion of 1 Decem­ber 2012 be­fore the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance is re­filled from the ori­gin­al pack­aging in­to smal­ler pack­ages, without the com­pos­i­tion or the in­ten­ded use be­ing changed, it may also be sup­plied in these smal­ler pack­ages with the ex­ist­ing la­belling un­til 31 May 2017.

⁴ For sub­stances that are placed on the mar­ket in quant­it­ies of 10 to 100 tonnes per year, the man­u­fac­turer must com­ply with the ob­lig­a­tion to pre­pare ex­pos­ure scen­ari­os in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 by 1 June 2018.