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Division C Ingredient data sheetF1

United Kingdom

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The following provisions shall apply to the listing of ingredients on the data sheet referred to in Article 9(3).

The data sheet shall list the name of the detergent and that of the manufacturer.

All ingredients shall be listed; in order of decreasing abundance by weight, and the list shall be sub-divided into the following weight percentage ranges:

  • 10 % or more,

  • 1 % or over, but less than 10 %,

  • 0,1 % or over, but less than 1 %,

  • less than 0,1 %.

Impurities shall not be considered to be ingredients.

‘Ingredient’ means any chemical substance, of synthetic or natural origin, intentionally included in the composition of a detergent. For the purpose of this Annex, a perfume, an essential oil, or a colouring agent shall be considered to be a single ingredient and none of the substances that they contain shall be listed, with the exception of those allergenic fragrance substances that appear on the list of substances in F2Annex 3 to EU Regulation 1223/2009 if the total concentration of the allergenic fragrance substance in the detergent exceeds the limit mentioned in section A.

The common chemical name or IUPACf1 name and, where available, the INCIf2 name, the CAS number, and the European Pharmacopoeia name, shall be given for each ingredient.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 907/2006 of 20 June 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on detergents, in order to adapt Annexes III and VII thereto (Text with EEA relevance).

F2

Words in Annex 7 Pt. C substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 28(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

f2

International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient.

Notes on the whole EU Regulation

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1336/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (Text with EEA relevance).

F2

Deleted by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two.