PFAS:
Restriction dossier before major adjustments

The more than 5,600 comments received on the first draft of the restriction dossier could lead to more extensive adjustments than expected. This was announced by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), one of the five authorities that helped draw up the restriction proposal.

After all, more than 100,000 pages had to be analyzed, which provided a much broader information base. Among other things, new findings emerged

on PFAS uses that are not included in the current draft. It is currently being examined whether and to what extent these uses fit in with the assessments of existing sectors or whether additional areas of use need to be defined for them.
whether the proposed exemptions and transition periods are appropriate. Exemptions may be added, revised or deleted; transition periods could be extended or shortened.
because new content from various EU regulations has been added in the meantime that has not yet been taken into account in the current draft of the dossier. This includes, for example, the revised F-Gas Regulation.
so that the urgency of which PFAS should be restricted or banned can be better assessed.

Urgent action is needed to achieve a uniform solution across the EU and to avoid other EU states going it alone as far as possible. Two countries have already taken the lead. In Denmark (press release in Danish), for example, the sale and import of PFAS-containing fire extinguishing foams used on training grounds has been banned since the beginning of the year. And at the beginning of April, France published a draft to ban PFAS in toys, cosmetics and textiles as quickly as possible.

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