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The EU is toughening the rules on the most lasting and polluting chemicals. The Romanian presidency of the Council today reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on updating the regulation on persistent organic pollutants, the UN-agreed list of dangerous substances. This regulation will help protect people and the environment against these chemicals.
The agreement will now be submitted for political endorsement by EU ambassadors in the Council's Permanent Representatives Committee.
The recast proposal ensures alignment of the existing regulation with the latest amendments to the Stockholm Convention, which provides the global legal framework for the elimination of the production, use, import and export of persistent organic pollutants. Several amendments align the regulation more closely with the general EU legislation on chemicals. As a result of these changes, there will be more clarity, transparency and increased legal certainty for all parties involved in the implementation of the regulation.
The new rules will maintain the existing high level of protection of human health and the environment in Europe, but some tasks foreseen under the regulation will be transferred from the European Commission to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki, as this is expected to reduce the overall costs and to expand the scientific knowledge available for implementation.
Under the agreement, the flame retardant decaBDE is added to the list of substances and the unintentional trace contaminant value is set at 10
Furthermore, specific exemptions concerning the use of decaBDE are introduced for
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