{"id":3945,"date":"2015-02-12T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regulatory.blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:00:10","slug":"alphabet-soup-and-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecompliancecenter.com\/ca\/help-center\/articles\/alphabet-soup-and-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet Soup and the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember eating alphabet soup as a child?\u00a0Remember playing with the noodle letters to make more words than your friends or siblings? Remember when the letters would not cooperate and\u00a0random letters were floating in your bowl?\u00a0Remember trying to use abbreviations and acronyms to make those random letters work? Oh, the frustration! Working on Safety Data Sheet (SDS) documents in the European Union (EU) can often feel like some of those memories.<\/p>\n

ICC Compliance Center is here to help and possibly give some new ways to win in your next competition.<\/p>\n

EU \u2013 Directives and Regulations<\/h2>\n

As a reminder, the EU governs hazard communication in two ways \u2013 by directives and regulations.\u00a0Directives mean all member states are required to implement their version of the directive within their state. Regulations, however, mean complete implementation in all member states without the need for or allowance of\u00a0versions in each state.
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Current directives and regulations<\/h3>\n

As of February 2015, there are multiple active directives and regulations at work in the EU. The oldest is the Dangerous Substances Directive (67\/548\/EEC) or the DSD and the Dangerous Preparations Directive (1999\/45\/EC) which is the DPD. This is followed by the\u00a0Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances Regulation more commonly known as REACH (EC1907\/2006). Finally, there is the Regulation on Classifying, Labeling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (1272\/2008\/EU) or in the shortened form the CLP. It should be mentioned that the CLP will amend and repeal the DSD and DPD as of June 1, 2015.<\/p>\n

So, not only are there multiple \u201claws\u201d, each one of them must be applied to your SDS documents if you want to do business in the EU.\u00a0Now, where does ICC Compliance Center fit in all of this?\u00a0The easy answer is now you have some new abbreviations to use in your next alphabet soup competition. The better answer is ICC Compliance Center can help with managing all of those directives, regulations and classifications on your documents. If a completed minimal information sheet with full disclosure of all the ingredients is given to us along with an SDS for each raw material, then we can create a compliant English European SDS.<\/p>\n

We can provide:<\/h3>\n