The European Commission opened, on 5 August 2022, a consultation on the safety requirements to be met by standards applying to several categories of children products. The draft Commission Decision is...
Read MoreCompanies that downgrade the tonnage band in their registrations after ECHA’s draft decision will need to prove the volume of their substance. ECHA has updated the rules on tonnage bands for...
Read MoreOn 26 July, 2022, the European Commission presented its monitoring framework for the EU’s eighth Environment Action Programme (EAP), which will apply up to December 2030. EU environment action programmes set...
Read MoreOn 22 June 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Adopted in 2009, the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive sought to...
Read MoreOn July 6, 2022, at the meeting of CARACAL (the EU’s expert group bringing together the Competent Authorities for the REACH and CLP Regulations), the European Commission presented some of the...
Read MoreOn 29 June 2022, the European Commission published its draft agenda for the second half of 2022. The agenda contains the meetings to take place between July and December 2022. Approval...
Read MoreAt the Green Economy Business Summit on June 8, 2022, it was highlighted that the successful implementation of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) is "preconditioned" so that the European chemical...
Read MoreThe Helsinki Chemicals Forum held from June 8 to 9, 2022 was a great success, from which key highlights of the industry were discussed brilliantly. This is a hybrid event, a...
Read MoreOn June 22, 2022, the European Commission opened a consultation period for proposed amendments to Annex VI of Regulation 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling, and Packaging of substances and mixtures (The CLP...
Read MoreOn July 1, 2022, the European Commission published a guidance document addressing the relationship between the REACH Regulations and the EU sanctions recently imposed under Council Regulations 269/2014 and 833/2014. The...
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