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…
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,…
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…
In mid-November, the EU Commission published its second, updated version of its catalog of nanomaterials used in cosmetics. The first version appeared in 2017. According to Article 16, 10 (a) of EU Regulation 1223/2009 (Cosmetics Regulation), the EU is mandated to provide public access to a catalog of all nanomaterials…
