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

¹ The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity may, after con­sulta­tion with the as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies, per­mit derog­a­tions from the la­belling re­quire­ments for cer­tain sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions, or for cer­tain groups of sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions, and al­low these not to be la­belled or to be la­belled in some oth­er suit­able form if:

a.

the pack­ages are too small or oth­er­wise un­suit­able for la­belling in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 10;

b.

the sub­stance or pre­par­a­tion is sup­plied in such small quant­it­ies that, tak­ing the par­tic­u­lar haz­ards in­to ac­count, it poses no risk to hu­mans or the en­vir­on­ment; or

c.

the sub­stance or pre­par­a­tion does not fall with­in the scope of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion⁵¹.

² It shall is­sue a rul­ing in re­sponse to a jus­ti­fied ap­plic­a­tion or is­sue a gen­er­al rul­ing.

³ It shall main­tain a list of the derog­a­tions that have been per­mit­ted and pub­lish this on its web­site.