The Sewage Sludge Directive (SSD) was no longer matching current needs and expectations, such as properly regulating pollutants found in sludge.
The Commission has launched an initiative which aims at prohibiting the import and/or export of certain hazardous chemicals that are banned in the EU.
EU Member States voted in favor of the proposal to restrict microplastics that are intentionally added to products.
The first Q&A document is now available and by June another batch of questions will be answered.
18 October 2023: ADR Regulation on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
26 September 2023: REACH and CLP in practice
22 September 2023: How to move according with the Biocides Regulation
13 September 2023: The Safety Data Sheet of chemical substances as a tool to communicate the risk
In a judgment delivered on Thursday, April 20, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union annulled the European Commission’s decision granting an authorization for certain uses of Chromium Trioxide under the REACH regulation governing the authorisation of chemicals in the EU.
ECHA published an overview of the dates when evaluating competent authorities are planning to submit assessment reports for biocidal active substance approvals or renewals from eCA to ECHA for opinion forming of the Biocidal Products Committee (BPC) of the Agency.