# 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), Article 53: Adaptations to technical and scientific progress

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1272/article/53 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1272/article-53
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