How is Ethanol categorized in the 12 BImSchV (Germans implementation of Seveso Directive)
<p>The 12 BImSchV (essentially germany implementation of the Seveso III directive, as far as I understand) defines certain industrial or other plants as hazardous, according to the substances stored there. <a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bimschv_12_2000/anhang_i.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This attachment lists the substances and substance categories</a>. Ethanol (alcohol) is absent, even when using many alternative names. What is the appropriate category for alcohol?</p>
<p>The most likely categories are flammable liquids, 1.2.5.1 to 1.2.5.3 (the tresholds are vastly different!), however I can't tell which specific one. Categories 1.1 (toxic fluids) are also, or additionally, possible. What is it?</p>
<p>Update upon further search:</p>
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<li>it <em>appears</em> the entries in the table linked above reference <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32008R1272&amp;from=de#d1e43-325-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EU 1272/2008, Annex VI</a> where ethanol is listed as &quot;Flam. liq. 2&quot; (along &quot;acute tox. 3), so ethanol would be an &quot;entzündbare Flüssigkeiten der Kategorie 2&quot; - correct?</li>
<li>EU 1272/2008 has been changed by, so far at least, 17 ATP, these usually change, add or remove some of the entries in the annexes. Is there a collated version of the annexes aof EU 1272/2008 taking into account all ATP? Is there a quick way to find all ATP referring to EU 1272/2008?</li>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.dguv.de/ifa/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance</a> maintains a substance data base, <a href="https://gestis.dguv.de/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GESTIS</a>, which lists safety and regulation related data for chemical substances.</p>
<p>While they have a limited liability statement, this is a very official ressource used for all kinds occupational safety questions.<br />
(The individual substance &quot;sheets&quot; do not give a &quot;last updated on&quot; date, but I just checked and the web site indicates the last update to the data base was today.)</p>
<p><a href="https://gestis.dguv.de/data?name=010420&amp;lang=en#1100" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Link to <strong>ethanol</strong> section &quot;Regulation&quot;</a></p>

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