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Ref : EIC 230/6/14
13 June 2014
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 568/2014
European Union (EU)* : Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 809/2013 of 7 October 2013, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation to amend Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures for the purposes of introducing hazard and precautionary statements in the Croatian language and its adaptation to technical and scientific progress. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) 605/2014, which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2014_167_R_0004&from=EN
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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Anita WONG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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