Amending annexes to REACH regulation ~ Draft regulation

The European Commission and ECHA have signed an agreement for the Agency to provide recommendations on a regular basis for occupational exposure limits (OELs) that protect workers exposed to hazardous chemicals. The agreement requires ECHA to assess four to five OELs per year from 2020 onwards. "The preparation of scientific dossiers proposing...

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 has today adopted proposals for negotiating directives for trade talks with the United States: one on conformity assessment to make it easier for companies to prove their products meet technical requirements on both sides of the Atlantic, and one on the elimination of tariffs for industrial goods. The Mem...

The country’s top manufacturing exporter has this morning (16 January) spoken about the House of Commons rejection of the negotiated Brexit deal. Steve Elliott, Chief Executive of the Chemical Industries Association, said “There is of course general business disappointment with the current position. We continue to lack the certaint...

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...