Furniture industry against French VOC regulation

Press Release (extract) - On 19 January 2017, French authorities have notified the EU an incomplete regulation with regard to mandatory labelling of formaldehyde  emission levels from wood-based furniture. The notified regulation has raised many concerns within European furniture producers. EFIC, the European Furniture Industries Confederation, has sent a detailed analysis to the European Commission showing problems and consequences to the sector should the regulation be implemented. 

Instead of following a common approach already embraced by eight countries in Europe, the French draft decree is establishing ad hoc demands and testing requirements for the French market only. EFIC National members agreed on the strong impact such regulation might have to exporting to France. 

The French notified regulation is now on standstill period at the EU level, which has been postponed to 20th July 2017 after the detailed opinions issued by the UK and Italy. According to the EU notification procedure, France must take into account the issues raised and must reply explaining the actions it intends to take in order to comply with them.

EFIC full analysis is available here: http://bit.ly/2omzi5T

SOURCE AND MORE INFO: www.efic.eu