# Commission Regulation (EU) No 944/2013 of 2 October 2013 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress, Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (Text with EEA relevance), Article 2

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

1. By way of derogation from Article 3(2) substances and mixtures may, before 1 December 2014 and 1 June 2015 respectively, be classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation.
2. By way of derogation from Article 3(2), substances classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and placed on the market before 1 December 2014, shall not be required to be relabelled and repackaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation until 1 December 2016.
3. By way of derogation from Article 3(2) mixtures classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council or Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and placed on the market before 1 June 2015, shall not be required to be relabelled and repackaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation until 1 June 2017.
4. By way of derogation from Article 3(3) the harmonised classifications set out in Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, as amended by this Regulation, may be applied before the dates referred to in Article 3(3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/944/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-944/article-2
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