RoHS stakeholder consultation on exemption for mercury, lead and hexavalent chromium

First, the good news: plaintiffs in a 2013 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) can allow themselves a small victory dance. In that suit, plaintiffs made a number of claimsrelated to EPA’s failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides, its poor oversight of the bee-killing pesticides clothianidin&...

The European Commission’s (EC) Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) published on January 14, 2019, a statement and a position paper on emerging health and environmental issues.  SCHEER identified and prioritized 14 emerging issues to bring to the attention of the EC services, inclu...

Another tumultuous year in the Australian Parliament concluded with no Senate consideration of the Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017. A push by some parties in the Senate for amendments to Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 may stand in the way of the timely introduction of a workable animal test ban that matches the approach currently in place in Eu...

Title of documentDraft Amendment of the Ministerial Ordinances “Regulatory Rules for Veterinary Medicinal Products” and “Manufacturing Quality and Quality Control of Veterinary Pharmaceutical Products” DescriptionThe Ministerial Ordinance Notifying member: Japan Notification: G/TBT/N/JPN/618 Objective tagQuality requirements ObjectiveWith...

Title of documentArrêté royal relatif au paquet standardisé des cigarettes, du tabac à rouler et du tabac à pipe à eau (7 page(s), in French; 7 page(s), in Dutch) Notifying member: Belgium Notification: G/TBT/N/BEL/43 Objective tagConsumer information, labelling Documents19_0325_01_f.pdf19_0325_00_f.pdf19_0325_04_f.pdf19_0325_03_f.pdf19...