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The information requirements for the upcoming database on articles containing Candidate List substances (SVHCs) are now published. Companies will need to submit information to the database from January 2021 onwards. Under the Waste Framework Directive, suppliers of articles containing a substance of very high concern...

With approximately six weeks to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, Echa has told companies in the chemicals supply chain to make sure they are prepared for a no-deal Brexit. As of 1 November, the UK may be a third country...

The UK government cannot rule out diverging from EU environmental laws transposed into UK law post-Brexit, new Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers told MPs. Villiers was giving evidence to Parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee on the topic of the Department for Environment, Food...

On August 20, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register final significant new use rules (SNUR) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 145 chemical substances that are the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN).  84 Fed. Reg. 43266.  According to EPA,...

On 11 July 2019, the General Court issued a judgment in case T-185/17 dismissing in its entirety an action brought by PlasticsEurope. This action was seeking the annulment of ECHA’s decision to include Bisphenol A (BPA; EC 201-245-8, CAS 80-05-7) in the Candidate List on...

ECHA is looking for comments on 27 applications for authorisation covering 39 uses of: Chromium trioxide (EC 215-607-8, CAS 1333-82-0) used in the manufacture of electrolytic chromium/chromium oxide coated steel (ECCS); 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenol, ethoxylated and 4-Nonylphenol, branched and linear, ethoxylated  (EC-, CAS-) used in the production...

The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorisation now contains 201 substances.   ECHA has added four new substances to the Candidate List due to their toxicity to reproduction, endocrine disruption and a combination of other properties of concern. The latter...

In June 2019 the European chemical industry launched an unprecedented action to proactively and systematically review and update data in previously submitted REACH registration dossiers. This initiative comes in response to the recent conclusion by the European Chemicals Agency that many REACH registration dossiers require...

ECHA will start to evaluate 20 % of registration dossiers in each tonnage band to improve the compliance of REACH registrations. This will mean approximately 30 % of all registered chemicals will be checked.  The Commission will propose an amendment to REACH to raise the...

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says it intends to quadruple the number of checks it undertakes on the registrations of thousands of chemical substances used in the bloc. The move is part of an effort to improve compliance with the EU’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and...