On November 9, the British government approved the Environment Act 2021 in parliament. Schedule 21 is particularly noteworthy. It states that the State Secretary is empowered to modify both REACH and REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 – as long as they abide by Article 1 of REACH (aim and scope of the regulation). But the...
Prohibition of Zinc Pyrithione and Other Chemicals Takes Effect on March 1 At the end of October, the EU published Regulation 2021/1902 to modify Annexes II, III, and V of the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009. According to the Regulation, 23 chemicals with carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reprotoxic effects (CMR chemicals) may not be used in cosmetics after...
The registration phase for chemicals has been running since the start of this year. What does that mean for you as a company? You should preregister your chemicals as soon as possible and have them registered if you want to manufacture or import them in a quantity greater than one...
China’s Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Centre (MEE-SCC), a department of the Ministry for Ecology and Environment (MEE), has given companies until October 31 to submit their missing annual reports. The reports are required when companies register new chemicals that are persistent (P), bioaccumulative (B), and toxic (T). They also include information...
On September 21, the EU Commission published the temporary impact assessment on the revision of the Detergents Regulation (Regulation No. 648/2004) and invited stakeholders to participate in a public consultation, which ends on October 19. A modification is required because theory and practice diverge too markedly in the text of the...
Since mid-September, consumers and waste disposers can access the data in the SCIP database to learn about hazardous materials in products. The ECHA issued a press release on the availability of access. According to the ECHA, about 6,000 companies have made 17 million submissions to SCIP. As of September 2021, the...
Scheduled to last five years and supported by €11.6 million, EU Project ZeroPM (Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile Substances) is to bring together many well-known scientists. Under the direction of Dr. Sarah Hale and Prof. Hans Peter Arp of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, the project’s members are to work at various levels –...
On August 25, 2021, the German Federal Law Gazette published the Ordinance on the Reordering of National Substatutory Regulations for Biocide Products. It replaces the Biocide Licensing Ordinance immediately and the Biocide Reporting Ordinance on January 1, 2022. The most important change in the ChemBiozidDV is that certain biocide products may be sold only after consultation with...
A study published in mid-August has revealed a weakness in EU legislation. Although the EU Cosmetics Regulation has forbidden animal experiments for cosmetic products since 2013, REACH actually requires data from animal experiments in many cases. The crux of the matter is that chemicals in cosmetics must be safe for consumers, in which case the Cosmetics...
On August 9, the EU began public consultation on the revision of the CLP Regulation. Organizations, corporations, and public agencies have until November 15 to offer feedback on planned revisions of the CLP Regulation that are part of the EU’s sustainability strategy. The feedback helps evaluate the effects of the modifications. Plans...
