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...
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...
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...
The German environmental agency, UBA, has published “Potential SVHC in environment and articles – information collection with the aim to prepare restriction proposals for PFAS on the use and spread of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances”. The report was created in preparation for a restriction proposal under REACH. Two years ago,…
The EU Commission would like to develop a proposal for the registration of selected polymers by 2022. According to Chemical Watch, the Commission announced its plans to participants in the CARACAL meeting at the beginning of November 2019. So far, neither registration nor evaluation of polymers has been required by…
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...
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,...
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,...
The ECHA wants to make the first version of its substance of concern in products (SCIP) database available to users in October 2020. A prototype will be ready as early as the first quarter of 2020. The Agency made the announcement in Helsinki at the beginning of November as part...
As of April 2020, the ECHA plans to check REACH dossiers with manual and computer-assisted checks. The agency hopes that the new checks will enable it to uncover information gaps more efficiently than it could before. First, the computer-assisted checks should ensure that registrants provide truly complete information about hazard...
