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

¹ Man­u­fac­tur­ers must clas­si­fy sub­stances in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 5, 7–13 and 15 of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion³⁴.

² If a har­mon­ised clas­si­fic­a­tion is spe­cified for a sub­stance in An­nex VI to the CLP Reg­u­la­tion, inthe ap­plic­able ver­sion re­ferred to in An­nex 2 num­ber 1, the man­u­fac­turer must ad­di­tion­ally clas­si­fy this sub­stance in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 3 of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion.

³ Clas­si­fic­a­tion must be based:

a.

in the case of ex­ist­ing sub­stances: on data col­lec­ted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 5 para­graph 4;

b.³⁵

in the case of new sub­stances: on the data as spe­cified in Art­icle 5 para­graph 4 and on data in the tech­nic­al dossier as spe­cified in Art­icle 27 para­graph 2 let­ter b.

⁴ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs (FDHA), in con­sulta­tion with the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions (DE­TEC) and the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search (EAER), may pre­scribe a har­mon­ised clas­si­fic­a­tion and the as­so­ci­ated la­belling for cer­tain haz­ard classes of a sub­stance if, for the sub­stance in ques­tion, a har­mon­ised clas­si­fic­a­tion is not spe­cified for the rel­ev­ant haz­ard class in An­nex VI to the CLP Reg­u­la­tion, in the ap­plic­able ver­sion re­ferred to in An­nex 2 num­ber 1.