ECHA Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis holds public consultations on draft opinions for restriction of BPA in thermal paper and PFOA; deadline for comments is November 16, 2015
October 20, 2015
Improvement of REACH needed
Danish Chemicals Forum – including NGOs and industry – calls for improvement of EU chemicals regulation in open letter to the European Commission and the European Chemicals Agency
September 18, 2015
Substituting hazardous chemicals
ECHA launches platform with guidance for industry on replacing toxic chemicals and hosts webinars on the topic
September 15, 2015
Restriction of PFOA and BPA
ECHA Committee for Risk Assessment and Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis release opinions on restriction proposals for PFOA and BPA
September 10, 2015
ECHA report on risk assessment of nanomaterials
ECHA publishes extensive summary of scientific workshop on risk assessment of nanomaterials held on October 23-24, 2014 in Helsinki, Finland
September 9, 2015
Toxic chemicals in recycled materials
NGOs urge European Commission to ban recycling of materials containing toxic flame retardant DecaBDE, a chemical previously found in recycled plastic FCMs
September 4, 2015
ECHA: Public consultation on 7 potential SVHCs
ECHA opens public consultation on 7 proposals for new substances of very high concern from August 31 to October 14, 2015; proposals include phthalate used in FCMs and UV-filters permitted in packaging inks
September 2, 2015
List of biocide suppliers published
ECHA makes available the list of active biocidal substances on the EU market including the substance or product suppliers
September 1, 2015
ECHA Biocides Stakeholders’ Day – now live
Today ECHA hosts Biocides Stakeholders’ Day – conference presentations and live-stream available online
July 23, 2015
Union-wide authorization of biocidal products
First applications for union-wide authorization of biocidal products submitted to ECHA
