On January 25, 2022, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) decided to open a discussion to evaluate the membership of Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania in the...
Read MoreOn November 18, 2021, the Ministry of Environment approved complementary provisions to Decree 9/2019, which is the current legislative instrument for the management and handling of Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Decree 35/2021 brings obligations for lighting...
Read MoreThe United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosted a webinar on November 18, 2021, aimed at promoting awareness on the management of industrial and consumer chemicals in Latin American countries. The webinar is...
Read MoreAfter four years of drafting the framework, Colombia finally promulgated a robust chemical management regulation. Decree 1630, published on November 30, 2021, sets the ground for implementing a national chemical inventory. Decree 1630/2021 targets hazardous substances for industrial...
Read MoreAccording to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and Danish Consumer Council THINK Chemicals, specific children’s toys have been discovered to contain some chemicals that are problematic. The Danish Consumer Council THINK...
Read MoreThe Swedish Chemicals Agency grants an exemption for a large amount of methylene chloride, which was banned in Sweden before now. This substance is used in manufacturing a component for lithium...
Read MoreCircular Economy has been on the rise, and debates about its adoption, key elements, benchmarks, and range of application are prevailing than ever before. In November 2021, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
Read MoreIn September, Chile reaffirmed commitments with the Latin American Regulatory Cooperation Forum (LARCF), an association promoting dialogue and information exchange, training initiatives, and regulatory cooperation through national chemical associations. At a recent meeting, the Chilean authorities demonstrated ...
Read MorePeru and Rwanda wrote a draft resolution on the 2nd of September 2021, to address harmful substances in plastics. The draft resolution requests that an intergovernmental negotiating committee be established to legally bind the treaty on...
Read MoreThe Gulf Standardization Organization (GSO), on the 7th of July 2021 issued an update to the draft Gulf Technical Regulation No. GSO 2528/2021 "Cosmetic products – Technical Regulation of cosmetic and...
Read MoreA Global NGO network, International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), based on its research, has found levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in almost all the free-range chicken eggs it collected near...
Read MoreThrough the Ministry of Employment and Labour under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993, on 29 March 2021, the government of South Africa finally published its regulations concerning Hazardous Chemical...
Read MoreThe Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently had a consultation to examine the draft of Circular to prohibit the use, manufacture, importation/exportation, distribution, sale, and storage of medical products that...
Read MoreDepartment of Environment (DOE) recently announced its new website for Environmentally Hazardous Substances (EHS) Registration. The platform is for gathering information on EHS identified and notified by importers and manufacturers to...
Read MoreIn EMB Memorandum Circular No. 2021-08, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) issued the 2021 updated Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS)....
Read MorePhilippines-Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) informs the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on the upcoming implementation of GHS in chemical mixtures and seeks their cooperation for enforcement Early February, the director of The...
Read MoreThe Latin American Regulatory Cooperation Forum (LARCF), coordinated with the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), published the Roadmap for the Rational Management of Industrial Chemical Substances and Products in late...
Read MoreColombia incorporated GHS guidelines in 2018 based on the Decreto 1.496/2018. The regulation provides guidance for ministries to implement the standard in each sector. In 2021, the Ministry of Labor is the first...
Read MoreOn February 9, 2021, Chile approved its rules for the classification, labeling, and notification of dangerous chemical substances and mixtures (Decree 57) in the official gazette. The Decree 57 was promulgated in November 2019...
Read MoreIn 2020 Colombia became the third Latin American country to join the OECD. As a membership requirement, the country has to develop a chemicals management system, including chemical regulation. The chemical...
Read MoreTo support the introducers under current Australian chemical regulation (AICIS), authorities have rolled out minor improvements in categorization along with adding few chemicals in the inventory (The Australian Inventory of Chemical...
Read MoreTo support the introducers under current Australian chemical regulation (AICIS), authorities have rolled out minor improvements in categorization along with adding few chemicals in the inventory (The Australian Inventory of Chemical...
Read MoreWhile there are less than 160 days left for the first phase for Turkey’s REACH regulation to conclude, more than 18,000 substances were pre-registered already by the first half of 2020,...
Read MoreA South Korean industry support group published a list of 332 substances that require prompt CICO (Chemical Substance Information Communicative Organization) establishment. These substances are the cases where pre-registrants of a...
Read MoreIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, European states are encouraged to apply derogations to the normal product authorisation requirements of the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) (‘health emergency permits’) to increase...
Read MoreRussia is the only country of the Eurasian Economic Union that is in the process of a national inventory formation. Since 2019, Russia has opened its inventory for notification of chemical...
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