At the end of March, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW), and the Ministry of Environment (MoE) published an up-to-date current list of the classifications of 3,281 chemicals, some of which had been classified multiple times in previous years. Japan…
The EU Commission is considering a ban on the manufacture and export of hazardous chemicals that are already prohibited in the EU. It opened a consultation and requested comments by July 31 from those affected by the PIC Regulation. The EU took this step after countries in Africa, the Caribbean,…
At the end of April, the EU published proposed modifications of the Detergents Regulation. Manufacturers and/or importers of substances or mixtures used in cleaning agents and detergents should note the following changes: According to the revised Regulation, products can be labeled digitally in the future, but certain information must continue…
It is a given that mandatory registration for polymers will come. The legal framework for it, including notification and registration deadlines, will be defined in the proposed revision of REACH, which should be published by the end of this year. However, the exact information that registrants will need for the…
At the end of April, as part of a meeting of the REACH Committee, a majority of the member states of the EU voted for the proposal of the European Commission to restrict microplastics intentionally added to products. If the European Parliament and Council do not raise any objections within…
In mid-April, the South Korean Environmental Ministry published the current version of the list of preregistered existing substances. The list now includes some 17,380 substances. Existing substances are those that were in use before July 2019. The list gives companies access to data such as the number of preregistered companies…
The ECHA has recommended that the EU Commission include the following eight substances in the REACH Authorization List (Annex XIV). The substances are either reprotoxic or respiratory sensitizers. Lead: Toxic for reproduction and used in the manufacture of batteries, cable sheathing, soldering, various parts of vehicles, machines, and furniture 2-methyl-1-(4-methylthiophenyl)-2-morpholinopropan-1-one:…
Regulation (EU) 2023/707 takes effect on April 20. With it, the EU Commission introduces new hazard classes and modifies Annexes I–IV of the CLP Regulation. According to Annex I of the Regulation, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) will be split into two categories: Category 1: Known or presumed endocrine disruptors Category 2:…
The EU Commission plans to modify the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) and extend the duration of the review program for existing active substances. The length of the extension remains unclear: Conversations now speak of three to five years. According to current law, the BPR obligates agencies to complete the review…
At the end of March, the ECHA published its updated its Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP) List. Companies can use the list to see which substances the responsible national agencies will examine in the next three years as part of the substance evaluation mandated in Articles 44–48 of REACH. In…
