§2.1 Classification of substances as hazardous according to the CLP Regulation

Commission notice on technical guidance on the classification of waste · European Union

On many occasions, the decisive criterion for the assignment of MH or MNH entries is the presence of ‘hazardous substances’, in line with the HP-criteria and related thresholds contained in Annex III to the WFD (consult in detail Annex 3 of this document). The EU CLP Regulation provides the criteria to assess the physical, human health and environmental hazards of substances. A hazardous substance is a substance that is assigned a hazard statement code when classified using the CLP Regulation. Information about which hazard statement codes are assigned to which substances can be derived from harmonised classifications and when not available partly also from self-classifications (used under the responsibility of the operator and subject to the scrutiny of the competent authorities, given that self-classifications are not harmonised) as described in the following sections.

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