Aids to working with the EU GHS Regulation

The United Nations' "Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)" forms the basis for the harmonization worldwide of regulations for the classification and labelling of hazardous substances and hazardous goods, and for the worldwide harmonization of the national and regional systems for classification and labelling:

• UN-GHS ("Purple Book“) in its 7^th revised edition (2017)
• GHS pictograms

EU GHS

The UN GHS is a recommendation which must be implemented by the individual countries with binding force. In the EU, the GHS has been introduced with binding force in the form of an EU Regulation which came into force on 20 January 2009.

GHS Regulation

• Consolidated version (as of 14 November 2020)

Brochures on the GHS

• GHS Globally harmonized system for the classification and labelling of chemicals (PDF, 1,43 MB) (DGUV Information 213-034, previously BGI/GUV-I 8658, in German)
• Brochure (in German) from the VCI (the association of the German chemical industry) on the European GHS Regulation and implementation of the globally harmonized system for the classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS)