42Furthermore, it is apparent from recitals 4 to 8 of Regulation No 1272/2008 that the EU legislature intended ‘to contribute to the global harmonisation of criteria for classification and labelling, not only at UN level, but also through the incorporation of the internationally agreed GHS criteria into Community law’. To that effect, Annex I to that regulation reproduces verbatim almost all of the GHS provisions.
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