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.
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.
We would like to inform you that the provision to revoke the marketing authorizations of PMC products intended for the disinfection of intact skin before medical treatment has been adopted.
In April, ECHA recommended to the European Commission the inclusion of 8 SVHC substances in the authorization list, based on the prioritization supported by the opinion of the Member State Committee.
We would like to point out that ECHA has organized a webinar that feature several tools and initiatives supporting stakeholders in the process of moving to safer alternatives, as the topic of substitution and analysis of alternatives of the most hazardous biocidal active substances is of growing interest.
We would like to point out that on March 24, the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/680, approving Alkyl dimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-type 1 in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 (BPR), was published on the Official Journal of the European Union.