„The only thing constant in life is change" Heraclitus of Ephesus already knew this and this still holds true 2500 years later. Since the beginning of 2020, Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG is new owner of KFT Chemieservice GmbH. Infraserv Höchst appointed Marcus Rosenberger and Stefan Palla as managing directors of KFT Chemieservice GmbH. As a...
As of January 4, manufacturers and importers must notify the ECHA when they want to market products containing substances of very high concern (SVHC) in a concentration greater than or equal to 0.1% by weight. Such notifications are required by Article 9, Section 1, Letter i of the EU Waste...
With the expiration of the deadline on December 31, 2020, the time allotted to British companies to transfer some 2,900 REACH registrations to European firms has passed. That number represents one fifth of the REACH registrations that were owned by British companies. According to the ECHA, this number could...
In December 2020, the ECHA Enforcement Forum published the closing report of the REACH En-Force 7 (REF-7) project. As part of the project, national authorities and customs agencies inspected a total of 813 companies in 28 countries. The inspectors found that 180 of the 1,420 chemicals examined are not registered...
Sweden and the Netherlands are driving the implementation of a Mixture Assessment Factors (MAF) road map. The MAF contributes to safer evaluation of the risks created by mixtures. The thought behind the MAP is that human beings are exposed to many chemicals, and that the risks arising from exposures at…
At the end of November, South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MoEL) published a list of 253 chemicals (only in Korean) that were manufactured or imported for the first time in 2020. The list includes the names of the compounds, their hazard and risk classifications, the quantity manufactured or...
In the future, the EU will require a chemical safety assessment (CSA) followed by the creation of a chemical safety report (CSR) for carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reprotoxic substances (CMRs) in tonnage bands of 1–10 tons per year. Accordingly, the EU plans to modify Article 14 of REACH along with the...
Denmark is about to enact a law that mandates stronger obligations than ever before on operators of online stores to comply with the legal requirements for products sold online. The law should take effect in July 2021. With this draft law (Danish only), Denmark is not only implementing the Regulation...
Shortly before the start of the registration phase that begins in January 2021, the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU) provided companies with a reworked version of the IT needed to register chemicals. The version is compatible with the IUCLID system that the ECHA runs. Initial experiences with the...
As of 2022, compliance authorities and customs inspectors across the EU will work within the context of a new EU enforcement project to determine if companies are meeting their notification obligations for hazardous mixtures as defined in Article 45 of the CLP Regulation. The ECHA Enforcement Forum made that decision...
In its meeting at the beginning of October, the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) of the ECHA approved the classification of methyl methacrylate (MMA) as a respiratory sensitizer of Category 1 and enhanced the table entry for BPA in Annex VI of the CLP to include the property of “acute and...
