Key takeaway
What This Development Means
The Bulgaria CLP bill would modernise poison-centre reporting, require 112 in safety data sheets, and introduce annual dental-amalgam quantity reporting. Chemical suppliers should review mixture notifications, responsibilities for imported or relabelled products, safety data sheet templates and mercury-product records while Parliament considers the government's amendments across Bulgarian operations during 2026.
Who would submit hazardous-mixture information?
The Bulgaria CLP bill identifies importers, downstream users and distributors covered by CLP Article 45 provisions when they place health-hazardous or hazardous mixtures on the Bulgarian market. Submissions would be made before first placement through ECHA's electronic platform. Businesses should map the entity for each imported, relabelled or redistributed mixture.
When would the Bulgaria CLP bill apply?
Most Bulgaria CLP bill provisions would apply from publication in Bulgaria's State Gazette if Parliament adopts the bill, while CLP references follow phased dates extending into 2027 and 2028. The text remains a bill, so companies should monitor amendments, final passage and promulgation before locking dates into systems or contracts.
Source basis: National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, chemicals and mercury amendment bill submitted 24 July 2026
A Bulgaria CLP bill submitted by the Council of Ministers on 24 July 2026 would update national arrangements for hazardous-mixture notifications, safety data sheets and mercury controls. Parliament assigned the proposal to four committees on 27 July, giving chemical manufacturers, importers, downstream users, distributors, biocides suppliers and dental-material businesses an early view of likely process changes.
Poison-Centre Information Would Move Through ECHA
For mixtures classified for health or physical hazards, the Bulgaria CLP bill would require the relevant importers, downstream users and distributors to provide composition information before first placing the product on the market. Submissions would pass through the European Chemicals Agency's electronic platform, with Bulgaria's National Centre of Public Health and Analyses becoming the appointed body for emergency-health information.
The draft explicitly includes biocides and covers chemical identities protected by an alternative name under CLP. Suppliers handling relabelled products or cross-border distribution should therefore confirm which legal entity owns the notification and whether Bulgarian market information is complete.
Safety Data Sheets And Dental Amalgam Records
The proposal would require the European emergency number 112 in section 1.4 of safety data sheets supplied under REACH. This is a small field with a large document footprint: one master template may feed product variants, customer portals, distributor systems and translated files.
Dental-amalgam manufacturers and importers would also report, by 31 May each year, quantities made or imported during the previous calendar year to the Bulgarian Medicines Agency. The provisions support updated EU mercury controls and reporting under Regulation (EU) 2017/852.
Prepare Without Freezing Draft Language Into Systems
Under the Bulgaria CLP bill, companies should inventory hazardous mixtures sold in Bulgaria, reconcile ECHA submissions with local product lists, identify affected safety data sheets and preserve dental-amalgam volume records. Because parliamentary scrutiny may alter wording or commencement, system changes should remain configurable until the final text is promulgated.
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