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Amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 32024R2865 on EUR-Lex (external, EUR-Lex)
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The list of definitions in Article 2 gains five new numbered entries after the existing definition of intermediate packaging, covering acute toxicity estimates, data carrier, refill, and refill station.
The prior version ended its list of definitions at intermediate packaging, with no equivalent entries for these four additional terms.
Cited: Art. 2, v2 (external, EUR-Lex) · Art. 2, v1 (external, EUR-Lex)
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Previous version, in force 1 December 2023 02008R1272-20231201 → this version, in force 10 December 2024 02008R1272-20241210
Article 2
Definitions
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
1. hazard class means the nature of the physical, health or environmental hazard;
2. hazard category means the division of criteria within each hazard class, specifying hazard severity;
3. hazard pictogram … 1,056 unchanged words … packaging and its contents;
36. packaging means one or more receptacles and any other components or materials necessary for the receptacles to perform their containment and other safety functions;
37. intermediate packaging means packaging placed between inner packaging, or articles, and outer packaging. packaging;
38. acute toxicity estimates means numeric values which are used to classify substances and mixtures in one of four acute toxicity hazard categories based on the oral, dermal or inhalation exposure route;
39. data carrier means a linear bar code symbol, a two-dimensional symbol or other automatic identification data capture medium that can be read by a device;
40. refill means an operation by which a consumer or a professional user fills packaging with a hazardous substance or mixture offered by a supplier in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
41. refill station means a place where a supplier offers to consumers or professional users hazardous substances or mixtures that can be acquired through refill, either manually or through automatic or semi-automatic equipment.