Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Annex VI is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation;

  2. (2)

    in Annex VI, Table 3.2 is deleted.

Article 2

1.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

2.

This Regulation shall apply from 1 March 2018.

Article 1(2) shall apply from 1 June 2017.

3.

By way of derogation from paragraph 2, substances and mixtures may, before 1 March 2018, be classified, labelled and packaged in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as amended by this Regulation.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 July 2016.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude Juncker