Under the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) plan (2020) the EU outlined a renewal of the UN Globally Harmonized System (GHS)chemical hazard classes for endocrine disruption and persistence. In the CSS...
Read MoreIn its recently held 60th session, the United Nations (UN) Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods adopted proposed amendments to the UN Model Regulations on the Transport of...
Read MoreThe European Commission is extending an ongoing consultation by the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) on the presence of cobalt in toys until September 8, 2022. The...
Read MoreThe European Commission opened, on 5 August 2022, a consultation on the safety requirements to be met by standards applying to several categories of children products. The draft Commission Decision is...
Read MoreCompanies that downgrade the tonnage band in their registrations after ECHA’s draft decision will need to prove the volume of their substance. ECHA has updated the rules on tonnage bands for...
Read MoreOn 26 July, 2022, the European Commission presented its monitoring framework for the EU’s eighth Environment Action Programme (EAP), which will apply up to December 2030. EU environment action programmes set...
Read MoreOn July 6, 2022, at the meeting of CARACAL (the EU’s expert group bringing together the Competent Authorities for the REACH and CLP Regulations), the European Commission presented some of the...
Read MoreOn 22 June 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Adopted in 2009, the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive sought to...
Read MoreOn 29 June 2022, the European Commission published its draft agenda for the second half of 2022. The agenda contains the meetings to take place between July and December 2022. Approval...
Read MoreThe Helsinki Chemicals Forum held from June 8 to 9, 2022 was a great success, from which key highlights of the industry were discussed brilliantly. This is a hybrid event, a...
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