Adaptations to technical and scientific progress
1.The Commission mayis adjustempowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 53a amending Article 6(5), Article 11(3), Articles 12 and adapt14, point (b) of Article 18(3), Article 23, Articles 6(5), 11(3), 12, 14, 18(3)(b), 23, 25 to 2929, and 35(2)the second and third subparagraphsubparagraphs of Article 35(2) and Annexes I to VIIVIII in order to adapt them to technical and scientific progress, including taking due account of the further development of the GHS, in particular any UN amendments relating to the use of information on similar mixtures, and considering the developments in internationally recognised chemical programmes and of the data from accident databases. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 54(3). On imperative grounds of urgency, the Commission may have recourse to the urgency procedure referred to in Article 54(4).
Where imperative grounds of urgency so require, the procedure provided for in Article 53b shall apply to delegated acts adopted pursuant to this paragraph.
2.Member States and the Commission shall, in the manner appropriate to their role in the relevant UN fora, promote the harmonisation of the criteria for classification and labelling of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) substances at the level of the UN.