The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging) Regulations 1993

Methods of marking or labelling packages

14.—(1) Any package which is required to be labelled in accordance with regulations 9 to 13 may carry the particulars required to be on the label indelibly marked on a part of that package reserved for that purpose and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a label includes a reference to that part of the package so reserved.

(2) Subject to paragraph (8), any label required to be carried on a package shall be securely fixed to the package with its entire surface in contact with it and the label shall be clearly and indelibly printed.

(3) The colour and nature of the marking shall be such that the symbol or, as the case may be, the hazard warning sign stands out from its background so as to be readily noticeable.

(4) The package shall be so labelled that the particulars can be read horizontally when the package is set down normally.

(5) Subject to paragraph (8), the dimensions of the label required under regulation 9 and that part of the label required under regulation 10 which does not carry the hazard warning sign shall be as follows—

Capacity of Package	Dimensions of label
(a) not exceeding 3 litres	if possible at least 52×74 millimetres
(b) exceeding 3 litres but not exceeding 50 litres	at least 74×105 millimetres
(c) exceeding 50 litres but not exceeding 500 litres	at least 105×148 millimetres
(d) exceeding 500 litres	at least 148×210 millimetres

(6) Any symbol required to be shown in accordance with regulation 9(2)(b)(ii) or 9(3)(b)(iii) and specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 shall be printed in black on an orange-yellow background and its size (including the orange-yellow background) shall be at least equal to an area of one-tenth of that of a label which complies with paragraph (5) and shall not in any case be less than 100 square millimetres.

(7) Subject to paragraph (8), a hazard warning sign shall have a side length of at least 100 millimetres.

(8) If the package is an awkward shape or so small that it is unsuitable to attach a label complying with paragraphs (2), (5) and (7) the label shall be attached in some other appropriate manner.

(9) The particulars required to be shown on the label shall be in English, except that where a substance or preparation is supplied to a recipient in another member State, the label may be in an official language of that State.