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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1272/article-53",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/1272",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1272",
  "path": "article/53",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Adaptations to technical and scientific progress",
  "text": "1 . The Secretary of State may by regulations amend Article 6(5), Article 11(3), Articles 12 and 14, point (b) of Article 18(3), Article 23, Articles 25 to 29, the second and third subparagraphs of Article 35(2) and Annexes I to VIII in order to adapt them to technical and scientific progress, taking due account of the further development of the GHS, in particular any UN amendments relating to the use of information on similar mixtures, and considering the developments in internationally recognised chemical programmes and of the data from accident databases.\n...\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 adapting a number of legal acts providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 53(1) substituted (1.11.2022) by The Chemicals (Health and Safety) Trade and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1037), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 53(1) omitted (1.11.2022) by virtue of The Chemicals (Health and Safety) Trade and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1037), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 53(2) omitted (1.11.2022) by virtue of The Chemicals (Health and Safety) Trade and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1037), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1272/article/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:47.470832+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}