At the end of April, the EU Commission published its Restriction Roadmap. The core documents of the road map are lists of thousands of critical chemicals that are to be removed successively from the market in the next few years. They are primary chemicals that have been identified as: Carcinogenic,…
Because of their potential endocrine-disrupting or reprotoxic effect, the use of 34 bisphenols is to be restricted, according to a press release issued by the ECHA. The Agency made this decision after an assessment of 148 bisphenols that it carried out with agencies from various EU member states, including Germany….
The EU Commission has specified the information requirements for REACH, updating Annexes VI–X of the Regulation. The corresponding EU Regulation 2022/477 was published in the Official Journal on March 25 and takes effect on October 14, 2022. What do the changes mean for your company? You are now obligated to…
The EU Commission is considering the introduction of an expiration date for REACH registrations. Registrations would expire when the company in question does not meet its obligation to update the registration or provide the data requested by the ECHA as required in the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1435 that took effect…
According to the impact assessment published in the fall of 2021, the EU is once again inviting stakeholders to comment on the revision of the Detergents Regulation (Regulation No. 648/2004). The public consultation is open until May 25. Repeal of the Detergents Regulation was under discussion in the fall. Plans…
Some nine of ten REACH dossiers that ECHA inspectors examined last year lacked data on the long-term effects of substances, such as information on mutagenicity, genotoxicity, and long-term aquatic toxicity. In these cases, the ECHA called upon companies to supply the data within a fixed period. The ECHA published the…
The EU plans to prohibit the marketing, use, and export of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foams. As a first step, the ECHA has now provided a proposal on how to limit the use of PFAS to protect water and soil in the future. In their Annex XV…
The South Korean Ministry of Environment (MoE) plans to add 162 more substances to the List of Priority Control Substances (in Korean). K-REACH, the South Korean chemicals regulation, is the basis for the change. If you use or import one of the products on the list, you must meet special…
The ECHA plans to add eight substances of very high concern (SVHC) to Annex XIV of the REACH Authorization List and requests the submission of information on their use by May 2, 2022. It issued the related press release on February 2. The chemicals involved include: 2-benzyl-2-dimethylamino-4′-morpholinobutyrophenone: The chemical is…
Turkish REACH (KKDIK in its Turkish abbreviation) requires that all chemical products manufactured in Turkey or imported into the country in a quantity of one ton or more have a uniform registration deadline of December 2023. A failure to comply means that a company faces the threat of blocked imports….
