EU Environment Ministers: PFASs Should Be Removed from the Market No Later than 2030

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Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, and Sweden are calling upon the EU to develop an action plan by 2025 that would completely replace the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by 2030. PFAS harm the environment and pose a hazard to human health. According to Chemical Watch, the countries formulated their appeal...
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Bisphenol A Banned in Thermal Paper Throughout the EU

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As of the start of this year, Bisphenol A (BPA) in a concentration of 0.02% or more by weight in thermal paper may not be marketed in EU, which is equivalent to a total ban. EU Regulation 2016/2235, which was published in December 2016, is now in effect. The maximum concentration of 0.02% was...
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India: Action Plan Calls for Inventories and Registration

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The National Coordination Committee (NCC), a group established by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), has worked out the framework for a chemicals law. It calls for the setup of a chemical inventory and a registration system and it should serve as the foundation of a future...
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Germany: Public Consultation on Oximes Now Running

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The German Federal Chemicals Agency (Bundesstelle für Chemikalien: BfC), a department of the Federal Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin: BAuA) is holding a public consultation (German only) on various oximes, including silane and oxime-silane compounds until February 11, 2020. Up to that date, companies or agencies can submit relevant usage information for…

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ECHA: Some 33% of Safety Data Sheets Contain Errors and One-Third of Mixtures are Labeled Incorrectly

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The REACH-EN-FORCE Project 6 of the ECHA implementation forum has found several violations of the legal requirements of the CLP Regulation. The ECHA announced its findings in December 2019 in a press release.  The project began in 2018 and involved inspectors in 29 countries who examined 3,391 mixtures along with 1,620 manufacturers,…

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Cosmetics Regulation: EU Commission Expands List of Restrictions

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On November 27, the EU Commission approved EU Regulation 2019/1966, which expands and corrects Annexes II, III, and V of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (1223/2009). Among other actions, the EU included 12 carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reproductive toxicants (CMRs) to Annex II (list of substances prohibited in cosmetics) of the Cosmetics Regulation. Furthermore, the EU updated Annex III and set to limits...
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EU States Support the Concept of Environmental Mobility Under REACH

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Nine EU member states, trade associations, and non-governmental organizations have supported the criteria defined by Germany for mobile substances. But disagreement still exists on how to implement the criteria in legislation. The report containing the criteria was presented at the CARACAL meeting in July. The German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) has...
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Toys: New EU Limit Values for Aluminum and Formaldehyde

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The EU has defined new limit values for aluminum and formaldehyde for toys. It published Commission directive 2019/1922 in the Official Journal of the European Union on November 19. The change updates No. 13 of Annex II, Part  III of the EU Toy Directive. The change lowers the limit value for aluminum migration in dry, brittle, powder-like,...
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Submission Portal for Hazardous Mixtures: ECHA Publishes Guidelines

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On its submission portal, the ECHA has provided two guidelines intended to support importers and downstream users when using its new system-to-system tool. Users can create dossiers in their own software systems and transmit them directly to the ECHA portal. Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation requires downstream users to notify the ECHA about...
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SVHC: Importers Face New Customs Requirements

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In the future, importers who wish to introduce products containing SVHCs must record the presence of such chemicals in customs documents. The EU Commission has required this information since October 1, 2019 for materials contained in the REACH Authorization List (Annex XIV). According to Miquel Aguado-Monsonet of the Directorate- General for Internal Market, Industry,...
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