WTO notification · TBT
United KingdomProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
The Chemicals (Health and Safety) (Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
The United Kingdom notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 12 May 2026.
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Products of the chemical industry
The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/GBR/122; it forwards comments to the United Kingdom.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)For the purposes of transparency, the United Kingdom is notifying Members to proposed changes to the ‘Assimilated Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 as amended for Great Britain’ (the Great Britain Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation or GB CLP Regulation). The proposed changes aim to streamline the process for arriving at decisions on the Great Britain mandatory classification and labelling (GB MCL) of hazardous chemical substances (Article 37 process). There is no action for the stakeholders to take nor a change in what is evaluated.
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