The ECHA has recommended to the EU that it include the following seven substances in Annex XIV, the authorization list, of REACH: Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) Dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6) Terphenyl, hydrogenated Dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP) Disodium octaborate Benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid 1,2-anhydride (trimellitic anhydride, TMA) The change would obligate companies that want to continue to use these chemicals to request authorization. But...
The Russian Ministry for Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) has published the final version of its chemical inventory (Russian only). The list contains some 80,000 chemicals. The list is to be integrated into the register of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), whose members includeArmenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. The goal...
Regulation (EU) 2019/1148 has been in effect since the beginning of February to regulate the marketing and use of explosives precursors. The new regulation replaces Regulation (EU) No. 98/2013 that was originally issued to prevent terrorist attacks more effectively. In response to the terror attacks in Paris in November...
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...
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...
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...
Swedish NGO ChemSec has rated companies according to their sustainability and published the results in a press release. Royal DSM (Netherlands) occupies the top spot in the ChemScore rankings, followed by Indorama Ventures (Thailand), Akzonobel (Netherlands), and Linde (Germany). Most of the well-placed companies come from Europe. ChemSec examined the product portfolios of the 35 chemical companies with the highest revenue and rated them according to...
Inspectors from the Norwegian environmental directorate inspected 15 different Web sites selling automotive care products, adhesives, and building materials. They reached the sobering conclusion that none of the Web sites indicated the presence of hazardous contents in the products. The sellers thereby violated Article 48 Section 2 of the CLP...
