REACH & CLP


EU Chemicals Reform Expands PFAS Ban Scope - Sourcing Journal - August 22, 2025

... industry as regulators not-so-quietly expand the scope of their proposed ban. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) publis. An error has occurred ...


Crackdown on 'forever chemicals' expands ahead of EU rules overhaul | Euronews - August 20, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on Wednesday expanded its proposal ... chemical safety law, REACH, continues to gather pace. First ...


ECHA publishes updated PFAS restriction proposal | Ecotextile News - August 20, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published its updated proposal to restrict per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in technical textile ...


Important steps for SMES in chemical legislation - European Coatings - August 18, 2025

Three key EU regulations are particularly critical for chemical products: REACH, CLP and the BPR (Biocidal ... The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) ...


Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) - Lexology - August 13, 2025

Progress update on the Universal PFAS restriction proposal - The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has confirmed that its scientific committees ...


EU Court of Justice Upholds Annulment of Classification of Titanium Dioxide as an ... - August 12, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) a proposal for classifying TiO₂ as a carcinogen by inhalation under the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) ...


European Court of Justice Upholds Decision Annulling Harmonized Classification and ... - August 9, 2025

... (ECHA) to classify titanium dioxide as a category 1B carcinogenic substance (carcinogenic to humans). In 2017, ECHA's Committee for Risk Assessment ...


EC Action Plan for the Chemicals Industry Includes Measures to Strengthen the Sector - August 8, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Action Plan. The EC states that the Action Plan proposes the following measures: Resilience and level playing field: The ...


EU Unveils Chemicals Industry Action Plan to Boost Competitivenes - August 7, 2025

European Commission released a Chemicals Industry Action Plan, simplification omnibus, and ECHA reform proposal to modernize the EU chemical ...


Mayer Brown secures landmark appellate victory for titanium dioxide industry - August 7, 2025

... (ECHA) had failed to take into account all the relevant factors to ... Court's judicial review in cases involving technical and scientific assessments.


Research article Public willingness to pay for chemicals regulation policies in South Korea - August 6, 2025

... chemical management by requiring companies to register and disclose chemical risks, improving public access to hazard information (ECHA, 2025).


Mayer Brown secures landmark appellate victory for Titanium Dioxide Industry in front of ... - August 4, 2025

... appeals before the Court of Justice. ... That concept is not defined in the Regulation or in ECHA Guidance and is interpreted by ECHA very broadly.


SinS 2025: ECHA calls for stronger collaboration between scientists and regulators to ... - July 29, 2025

At the 2025 Solutions in Science (SinS) Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom, Suvi Takala, Head of Unit: Chemistry, the European Chemicals ...


REACH Candidate List Reaches 251 SVHCs | Earth - Vocal Media - July 24, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has once again updated its Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) Candidate List. On June 25, 2025, the list ...


European Commission presents Chemicals Industry Action Plan: Implications for PFAS regulation - July 18, 2025

... Chemicals Agency6 (“ECHA”) to enhance its governance and strengthen its role in legislative processes, among other things. PFAS restriction ...


WK 9934 2025 INIT - July 16, 2025

Ad hoc Working Party on the ECHA Basic Regulation (AHWP ECHA): creation and mandate - Approval


Beauty industry welcomes “balanced” EU Chemicals Action Plan - July 14, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) via an independent legal framework. The Action ... chemical labelling rules and align information requirements ...


Industry welcomes EC action plan | Speciality Chemicals Magazine - July 11, 2025

... ECHA. This includes, among other things simplifying hazardous chemical labelling rules, clarifying cosmetics regulations and easing registration ...


Newsletters - ENVI News - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety - July 11, 2025


ENVI News 14-15 July: 2040 EU climate target, Danish Presidency priorities, hearing of EFSA Executive Director nominee
ENVI News 03 & 07 July 2025: EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, battery due diligence, marine biodiversity, CBAM, chemicals, biological control agents, Roswall on water resilience strategy
ENVI News 24 June: COP30, climate adaptation, agriculture and sustainable development goals
ENVI News 03-04 June: Executive Director of ECHA, Preparedness Union Strategy, vote on Soil Monitoring and REGI opinion on mid-term review
ENVI News 12-13 May: Exchanges of views with Commissioners Lahbib, Varhelyi and Séjourné, agriculture, protected species and CBAM
ENVI News 23-24 April and 5 May: Climate COP30 preparations, implementation of EU water legislation, PFAS and structured dialogue with Commissioner Hoekstra
ENVI News 7-8 April 2025: Commissioner Roswall, EFSA Director, air quality, eco-design, water resilience, taxonomy and budget
ENVI News 17-18, 19, 20 March 2025: EVP Ribera, EEA Ex. Director, sustainable transport, CBAM, end-of-life vehicles, forests, objections on LIFE programme, SDGs.
ENVI News 17-18 February: Water resilience, end-of-life of vehicles, one-substance-one-assessment, forest monitoring
ENVI News 13, 16 & 23 Jan 2025: Forests, climate adaptation, GMOs&novel food, end of live vehicles, microplastics, Polish Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska
ENVI News 27-28 January: Water resilience, food controls, climate, cats and dogs
ENVI News 4-5 December 2024: Presentation of EU Agencies' work, Climate reports, Budget Discharges 2023, WHO on Antimicrobial resistance, adoption of negotiation mandates
ENVI News 14 October 2024: Deforestation Regulation & objections to the authorisation of GMOs
ENVI News 04 November 2024: Confirmation Hearings from 4 to 12 November 2024
ENVI News 3 October: NGTs, Clean Transition Dialogues update, Plastic Treaty and CBD COP16
ENVI News 14-15 July: 2040 EU climate target, Danish Presidency priorities, hearing of EFSA Executive Director nominee
ENVI News 23 September: Exchanges of views with the Hungarian Presidency

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Highlights - ENVI Members to discuss draft opinion on 2026 EU Budget and climate priorities - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety - July 11, 2025

On 14 July 2025, ENVI Members will consider the draft opinion on the EU General Budget for 2026, focusing on the need for green and digital transition, climate resilience and adequate resources for agencies under the Committee’s remit

ENVI Members will discuss the draft opinion on the 2026 EU Budget, which supports strategic objectives including competitiveness, security, migration, and the green and digital transitions. The Rapporteur highlights the need for coherence between decarbonisation, resilience, and innovation, and calls for continued support to the European Green Deal, including through the Clean Industrial Deal and a water resilience strategy. He also stresses the importance of adequate resources for EEA, ECHA, and EFSA to implement legislation adopted in the previous term, and welcomes the EU's external climate action under the Global Gateway. Members will now submit amendments to the opinion, as well as budgetary amendments, to be voted in ENVI in September and in plenary in October.


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European Commission introduces action plan to boosts Europe's chemical industry - July 11, 2025

Additionally, the Commission has proposed measures to improve the governance and financial sustainability of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).


EU chemicals industry action plan to combat PFAS - Innovation News Network - July 10, 2025

A science-based proposal, informed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), will be advanced swiftly. Where PFAS are essential and alternatives ...


Publication of an EU Action Plan for Chemicals and a Simplification Package - Lexology - July 10, 2025

... substance or mixture classified as hazardous. On advertisement ... 3) Proposal on a Self-Standing European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Regulation.


EU Chemicals Package Unveiled—Action Plan & Omnibus Reforms - July 9, 2025

European Commission launches Chemicals Industry Package—Action Plan, Sixth Omnibus, and ECHA reform aim to boost competitiveness, simplify rules, ...


Commission strengthens Europe's chemical industry - Orissa Diary - July 9, 2025

... chemicals legislation, alongside a proposal to strengthen the governance and financial sustainability of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). - ...


Press Release 87/25: Judgments of the General Court in Cases T-304/24 to T-306/24 - July 9, 2025

... Court of Justice or the General Court. If the action is well ... ECHA (Melamine) and T-167/23 | LAT Nitrogen Piesteritz and Cornerstone ...


EU to set up Critical Chemical Alliance - EUbusiness.com | EU news, business and politics - July 8, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA). The Critical Chemical Alliance will identify critical production sites needing policy support and tackle trade issues ...


EU seeks to revive chemical industry with action plan and simplification - Eunews - July 8, 2025

... chemicals legislation, as well as a proposal to strengthen the governance and financial sustainability of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).


Commission kicks off deregulatory drive for chemicals industry - ENDS Europe - July 8, 2025

... ECHA Basic Regulation” in the third quarter with a stated ambition to enhance the governance and financing of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).


Questions and answers on the Action Plan for the Chemical Sector and Simplification Omnibus - July 8, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) was established in 2007 under the REACH Regulation to handle technical, scientific, and administrative tasks ...


Commission strengthens Europe's chemical industry - July 8, 2025

... chemicals legislation, alongside a proposal to strengthen the governance and financial sustainability of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). The ...


Possible restriction of PVC and additives delayed indefinitely - ENDS Europe - July 7, 2025

Tags: Chemicals. Related Articles. Chemicals · ECHA updates timeline for possible chemical restriction proposals. 03 Jul 2024. The European Chemicals ...


REACH and RoHS: Sure, you have met them, buddy? - DQIndia - July 7, 2025

... chemical substances, aiming to ensure their safe use throughout their ... ECHA CHEM is ECHA's public chemicals database, launched in early 2024.


Scientific cooperation among Europe's One Health agencies - ScienceDirect.com - July 6, 2025

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the ...


European Commission fines Alchem for participating in pharmaceutical cartel - July 4, 2025

ECHA adds three hazardous chemicals to the Candidate List · Impact of the UK-India FTA on Indian chemical industry · View More · Interviews ...


Newsletters - ENVI News - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety - July 2, 2025


ENVI News 03 & 07 July 2025: EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, battery due diligence, marine biodiversity, CBAM, chemicals, biological control agents, Roswall on water resilience strategy
ENVI News 24 June: COP30, climate adaptation, agriculture and sustainable development goals
ENVI News 03-04 June: Executive Director of ECHA, Preparedness Union Strategy, vote on Soil Monitoring and REGI opinion on mid-term review
ENVI News 12-13 May: Exchanges of views with Commissioners Lahbib, Varhelyi and Séjourné, agriculture, protected species and CBAM
ENVI News 23-24 April and 5 May: Climate COP30 preparations, implementation of EU water legislation, PFAS and structured dialogue with Commissioner Hoekstra
ENVI News 7-8 April 2025: Commissioner Roswall, EFSA Director, air quality, eco-design, water resilience, taxonomy and budget
ENVI News 17-18, 19, 20 March 2025: EVP Ribera, EEA Ex. Director, sustainable transport, CBAM, end-of-life vehicles, forests, objections on LIFE programme, SDGs.
ENVI News 17-18 February: Water resilience, end-of-life of vehicles, one-substance-one-assessment, forest monitoring
ENVI News 13, 16 & 23 Jan 2025: Forests, climate adaptation, GMOs&novel food, end of live vehicles, microplastics, Polish Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska
ENVI News 27-28 January: Water resilience, food controls, climate, cats and dogs
ENVI News 4-5 December 2024: Presentation of EU Agencies' work, Climate reports, Budget Discharges 2023, WHO on Antimicrobial resistance, adoption of negotiation mandates
ENVI News 14 October 2024: Deforestation Regulation & objections to the authorisation of GMOs
ENVI News 04 November 2024: Confirmation Hearings from 4 to 12 November 2024
ENVI News 3 October: NGTs, Clean Transition Dialogues update, Plastic Treaty and CBD COP16
ENVI News 23 September: Exchanges of views with the Hungarian Presidency

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Highlights - ENVI vote on opinion to the EU-UK TCA implementation report - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety - July 2, 2025

On 3 July 2025, ENVI Members will vote on their opinion for the AFET/INTA-led report on the implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, focusing on the Committee’s areas of competence

The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), in force since 2021, governs post-Brexit relations in many policy areas, including on trade, energy, transport, fisheries, and climate and environmental cooperation. In March 2025, the European Commission published its 2023 implementation report, outlining progress and challenges. In areas under ENVI's remit, the report notes continued cooperation on emissions trading and offshore renewable energy, and highlights UK legislative changes to its Emissions Trading Scheme, which the Commission continues to monitor. It also flags divergence in the UK's chemicals policy (UK REACH) from EU REACH. Following this, the AFET and INTA committees launched its periodical own-initiative implementation report. ENVI is one of 11 committees authorised to contribute an opinion, providing input within its area of competence. ENVI Members tabled 245 amendments to the draft opinion, with nine compromise amendments negotiated ahead of the vote.


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ECHA Adds Three Hazardous Chemicals to Candidate List - ChemAnalyst - June 26, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced the addition of three new substances to its Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern ...


ECHA adds three hazardous chemicals to the Candidate List - June 26, 2025

Importers and producers of articles have to notify ECHA if their article contains a Candidate List substance within six months from the date it has ...


Three hazardous chemicals added to EU candidate list - June 25, 2025

Following a decision at the ECHA's member state committee on 16 June, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on Wednesday the inclusion in the ...


Europe Daily News, 25 June 2025 | Insights - Mayer Brown - June 25, 2025

... Court in Case T-366/22, Ryanair Vs. Commission (Condor II ; COVID ... ECHA adds three hazardous chemicals to the Candidate List - ECHA/NR/25/20 ...


ECHA adds three new substances to hazardous chemicals list | Ecotextile News - June 25, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added three new hazardous chemicals to its 'Candidate List' of substances of very high concern (SVHCs), ...


EU candidate list of hazardous chemicals reaches landmark 250 entries - ICIS - June 25, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said in a statement. A third substance, used in textile treatment products and dyes, was described as toxic for reproduction.


Annual Report 2024 : executive summary. - June 23, 2025

ECHA’s achievements in 2024 reflect a strong commitment to our strategic goals and priorities, as well as our vision of chemical safety through science, collaboration and knowledge. We continued to progress and implement our existing legal mandate and also commenced implementation of several new tasks. Our role continues to expand, and in 2024, we supported decision makers as they prepared for the introduction of further new regulatory tasks for the Agency. Throughout the year, we collaborated closely with our many stakeholders, including Member States, the Commission, EU agencies, industry and NGOs. This engagement ensures we can deliver transparent, independent and high-quality scientific opinions and decisions and ensure duty holders meet their legal obligations. While much has been achieved in 2024, the Agency continues to face challenges, which will need to be addressed over the coming period. However, we also took steps to address how the Agency can tackle several of these challenges by modifying our ways or working in the future.


Newsletters - ENVI News - Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - June 23, 2025


ENVI News 24 June: COP30, climate adaptation, agriculture and sustainable development goals
ENVI News 03-04 June: Executive Director of ECHA, Preparedness Union Strategy, vote on Soil Monitoring and REGI opinion on mid-term review
ENVI News 12-13 May: Exchanges of views with Commissioners Lahbib, Varhelyi and Séjourné, agriculture, protected species and CBAM
ENVI News 23-24 April and 5 May: Climate COP30 preparations, implementation of EU water legislation, PFAS and structured dialogue with Commissioner Hoekstra
ENVI News 7-8 April 2025: Commissioner Roswall, EFSA Director, air quality, eco-design, water resilience, taxonomy and budget
ENVI News 17-18, 19, 20 March 2025: EVP Ribera, EEA Ex. Director, sustainable transport, CBAM, end-of-life vehicles, forests, objections on LIFE programme, SDGs.
ENVI News 17-18 February: Water resilience, end-of-life of vehicles, one-substance-one-assessment, forest monitoring
ENVI News 13, 16 & 23 Jan 2025: Forests, climate adaptation, GMOs&novel food, end of live vehicles, microplastics, Polish Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska
ENVI News 27-28 January: Water resilience, food controls, climate, cats and dogs
ENVI News 4-5 December 2024: Presentation of EU Agencies' work, Climate reports, Budget Discharges 2023, WHO on Antimicrobial resistance, adoption of negotiation mandates
ENVI News 14 October 2024: Deforestation Regulation & objections to the authorisation of GMOs
ENVI News 04 November 2024: Confirmation Hearings from 4 to 12 November 2024
ENVI News 3 October: NGTs, Clean Transition Dialogues update, Plastic Treaty and CBD COP16
ENVI News 23 September: Exchanges of views with the Hungarian Presidency

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Pesticides: a life ruined by glyphosate - Yahoo - June 18, 2025

... chemical and certain forms of cancer. Yet, the European Union has extended its ... ECHA, the European authorities for food and chemical safety.


Council of the EU and EP Agree on “One Substance, One Assessment” Legislative Package - June 16, 2025

It would also empower the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to generate data when needed and ensure transparency of scientific studies. Under the ...


EU Reaches Deal on Chemical Data Platform - The National Law Review - June 13, 2025

... chemicals, and ensure early detection and action on emerging chemical risks. ... The press release notes that the OSOA package will help ECHA, and other ...


Member states and MEPs strike deal on 'one substance, one assessment' package - June 13, 2025

The agreed text includes provisions for situations where the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reach ...


Commission to seek review of new data linking glyphosate to higher cancer risk - Euractiv - June 13, 2025

The European Commission will task its chemicals agency (ECHA) and food safety watchdog (EFSA) with reviewing a new study linking the weed killer ...


Council and Parliament agree on simplified and more efficient handling of chemical assessment data - June 13, 2025

It also empowers the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to generate data when needed and ensures transparency of scientific studies. Main elements of ...


Council and Parliament agree on simplified and more efficient handling of chemical assessment data - June 12, 2025

... chemicals, and ensure early detection and action on emerging chemical risks. ... ECHA should provide access to all chemicals data generated or submitted ...


Dermal Absorption and Metabolism of [14C]-C12 Alkyl Benzoate in Finsolv® TN in Human Skin In Vitro - June 12, 2025

Abstract
C12 alkyl benzoate is present in the commercial emollient cosmetic ingredient C12-15 alkyl benzoate (Finsolv® TN). Finsolv® TN is a mixture of linear and branched esters of benzoic acid and aliphatic alcohols where linear C12 alkyl benzoate is a representative homologue with the shortest alkyl C-chain and lowest molecular weight. A preliminary non-GLP in vitro skin penetration study which monitored dermal bioavailability of all C12-15 alkyl benzoate constituents using GC-MS was carried out which demonstrated C12 alkyl benzoate could be considered a worst-case representative constituent to determine dermal absorption of the overall substance. Subsequently, [14C]-C12 alkyl benzoate was mixed into Finsolv® TN, and applied, neat (10 µL/cm2), to dermatomed human skin mounted in a flow through diffusion cell system. Receptor fluid was collected up to 24 h post dose and the skin was decontaminated at 8 h post dose. The absorbed dose, dermal delivery, potentially absorbable dose and dermally absorbed value of [14C]-C12 alkyl benzoate were 0.41, 0.97, 2.20 and 2.97%, respectively. Metabolism during absorption was assessed in skin from the same donors, with no C12 alkyl benzoate detected in the receptor fluid, although the primary metabolite, [14C]-benzoic acid (>93%), was detected. A phenyl acetate esterase assay confirmed the presence of esterase activity in the donor skins used. Therefore, this study confirmed that dermal exposure of C12-15 alkyl benzoate (Finsolv® TN) results in an absorbed dose of 2.97% completely metabolized to benzoic acid and aliphatic alcohol(s) in human skin. These findings indicate that a more in-depth investigation and assessment of toxicokinetic behavior (specifically for occupational exposures via the skin) provide opportunities to develop exposure-led strategies to avoid unnecessary animal testing allowing registrants to fulfil obligations to adhere to the “last resort” principle under REACH.

Sun Chemical Releases Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter - WhatTheyThink - June 11, 2025

New guidance by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on the application of Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals (CLP) criteria. An ...


Highlights - ENVI exchange of views with ECHA Executive Director Sharon McGuinness - Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - June 11, 2025

On 4 June, ENVI held its annual exchange of views with Dr Sharon McGuinness, Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). The session was part of the regular dialogue between the Parliament and ECHA, focusing on the Agency’s ongoing work, current priorities, and challenges related to chemical safety, regulatory tasks, and resource adequacy.

This was the second ENVI exchange with Dr Sharon McGuinness since her appointment as ECHA Executive Director on 1 December 2022. ECHA has grown significantly since 2007, now employing 591 staff and managing a €127 million budget. It supports the implementation of REACH, CLP, BPR, PIC, and POPs, and carries out tasks under legislation on water, waste, batteries, packaging, and emissions.

Current priorities include evaluating the PFAS restriction proposal submitted by five Member States, on which ECHA's committees are preparing sectoral opinions to inform the Commission's and Member States' decisions. The One Substance, One Assessment package, adopted in December 2023, currently in inter-institutional negotiations , aims to streamline chemical risk assessments and will increase ECHA's responsibilities. Finally, a future proposal on ECHA's basic regulation is expected, which will revise its governance and consolidate its financing model to better support its growing mandate.

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Highlights - Exchange of views with EVP Séjourné on Industrial Strategy and Clean Industrial Deal - Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - June 11, 2025

On 13 May 2025, ENVI Members held an exchange of views with Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné, as part of the structured dialogue, on his responsibilities for industrial strategy, competitiveness and the green transition

This structured dialogue was the first opportunity for ENVI Members to question Stéphane Séjourné in his role as Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy on the state of play, progress and outlook of his work. His portfolio covers the Industry, SMEs and the Single Market, with key responsibilities including implementation of the Net Zero Industry Act and the Critical Raw Materials Act, and the forthcoming Circular Economy Act and the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act. Discussions were expected to focus on the Clean Industrial Deal, presented on 26 February, which sets out urgent measures to support EU industry in regaining competitiveness while decarbonising. The Deal aims to create lead markets for circular products, improve access to affordable energy, and boost demand for clean technologies. Members were also expected to address the upcoming Chemicals Package and the targeted revision of the REACH Regulation, due in late 2025.


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ECHA: Scientific research needed to protect health, the environment and competitiveness - June 11, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has updated its report on Key Areas of Regulatory Challenge with new topics in line with the European Union's ...


ST 9964 2025 INIT - June 10, 2025

AOB for the meeting of the Council (Environment) on 17 June 2025 The proposed ban on lead in ammunition and fishing tackle under the REACH Regulation - Information from Czechia, Lithuania and Slovakia


Sun Chemical Releases Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter | WebWire - June 10, 2025

New guidance by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on the application of Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals (CLP) criteria; An ...


Interim approach to the PMT concept to support UK REACH risk management of PFAS - June 4, 2025

Chemical pollution presents a risk to environmental quality and to human health through environmental exposure. In line with the environmental ...


Guidelines for the measurement of formaldehyde releases from articles and formaldehyde concentrations in the interior of vehicles : April 2025. - June 2, 2025

The proper assessment of the confidentiality of the information contained in the ARs and PARs is important to ensure the correct dissemination of information on active substances (AS) and biocidal products (BP) as required under Article 67 of the Regulation (EU) 528/2012 (“Biocidal Products Regulation” (BPR)). It is also relevant in the context of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (“ATD Regulation”) and equivalent national provisions, since the dissemination of ARs and PARs will possibly limit the number of access to documents requests. Note that these guidelines are without prejudice to confidentiality claims related to Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information. Two documents on the confidentiality claims check were prepared by ECHA (CA-March14-Doc.7.2.1 and CA-March14-Doc.7.2.23) and presented at the 55th CA meeting. A revised proposal for the assessment of confidentiality claims was agreed in the 56th CA meeting. This document elaborates guidelines in more detail on the general principles for assessing confidentiality requests by the evaluating body and on their practical application in relation to dissemination of ARs and PARs. Dissemination directly from the IUCLID dossier was not considered in this revision. The Biocides Submission Manual (BSM) Process of confidentiality requests for biocide applications provides information on the content of confidentiality claims and aims to help applicant for preparing their IUCLID dossiers.


Debunking the myths: Why an EU ban on lead is justified and overdue - June 2, 2025

... toxic substance by replacing it with safer, readily available alternatives. ... In 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) conducted a comprehensive ...


Newsletters - ENVI News - Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - June 2, 2025


ENVI News 03-04 June: Executive Director of ECHA, Preparedness Union Strategy, vote on Soil Monitoring and REGI opinion on mid-term review
ENVI News 12-13 May: Exchanges of views with Commissioners Lahbib, Varhelyi and Séjourné, agriculture, protected species and CBAM
ENVI News 23-24 April and 5 May: Climate COP30 preparations, implementation of EU water legislation, PFAS and structured dialogue with Commissioner Hoekstra
ENVI News 7-8 April 2025: Commissioner Roswall, EFSA Director, air quality, eco-design, water resilience, taxonomy and budget
ENVI News 17-18, 19, 20 March 2025: EVP Ribera, EEA Ex. Director, sustainable transport, CBAM, end-of-life vehicles, forests, objections on LIFE programme, SDGs.
ENVI News 17-18 February: Water resilience, end-of-life of vehicles, one-substance-one-assessment, forest monitoring
ENVI News 13, 16 & 23 Jan 2025: Forests, climate adaptation, GMOs&novel food, end of live vehicles, microplastics, Polish Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska
ENVI News 27-28 January: Water resilience, food controls, climate, cats and dogs
ENVI News 4-5 December 2024: Presentation of EU Agencies' work, Climate reports, Budget Discharges 2023, WHO on Antimicrobial resistance, adoption of negotiation mandates
ENVI News 14 October 2024: Deforestation Regulation & objections to the authorisation of GMOs
ENVI News 04 November 2024: Confirmation Hearings from 4 to 12 November 2024
ENVI News 3 October: NGTs, Clean Transition Dialogues update, Plastic Treaty and CBD COP16
ENVI News 23 September: Exchanges of views with the Hungarian Presidency

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Chemical Coalition Withdraws TSCA Section 21 Petition Seeking Revisions To TSCA 8(a)(7 ... - May 30, 2025

... substance covered by" the reporting rule and instead allow "robust summaries, similar to the approach adopted by the European Chemicals Agency" (ECHA) ...


Proactive measures help shape the EU candidate list of substances of very high concern - May 28, 2025

Additionally, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)'s Member State Committee (MSC) meetings, where SVHC identification is discussed, have sessions open ...


The role of biocide compliance in cleanrooms - May 28, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) listings and, in many cases, making unvalidated safety and efficacy claims. Current biocide regulations. Understanding the ...


ECHA's Redesigned C&L Inventory Is Available In ECHA CHEM - Chemicals - United States - May 27, 2025

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on May 20, 2025, that the redesigned Classification and Labeling (C&L) Inventory is now available ...


Germany's Linkage of TFA to Reproductive Toxicity Submitted - Natural Refrigerants - May 27, 2025

... toxic, very persistent and very mobile was officially submitted to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). One of the main sources of TFA in the ...


PFAS ban must overcome legal obstacles - Cooling Post - May 25, 2025

The PFAS proposals submitted to the ECHA in 2023 by Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, call for a ban on all PFAS substances under ...


ECHA Launches Redesigned C&L Inventory with Improved Access - May 24, 2025

European Chemicals Agency's updated C&L Inventory now in ECHA CHEM offers easier access to 350000 substances, harmonized data, and new CLP hazard ...


How to bridge the gap between nature conservation and environmental risk assessment of ... - May 21, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) approach environmental assessments. The IUCN's ... chemical compounds, such as individual heavy metals and pesticides and their ...


Arkema issued €400 million undated hybrid bond - Indian Chemical News - May 21, 2025

Chemical. ECHA integrates classification and ...


NP-EFSA-PREV-2025-02 Support from Member States on NAMs4PestRes - May 20, 2025

Deadline: 2025-06-03

Approximate launch date: 05/06/2025
Deadline to register interest: 03/06/2025

Background

In 2023 EFSA launched a project  to promote the use of New Approach Methods (NAMs) into the risk assessment of pesticide residues metabolites (NAMs4PestRes) through the use of the OECD QSAR toolbox, a free available in silico tool managed by ECHA, to enhance connectivity of IUCLID and MetaPath and to implement embedded in silico models. The result will be an automated and standardized workflow for the assessment of mutagenicity (bacterial gene mutation) of pesticide residue metabolites to be implemented in a...


PFAS restrictions in 2027 - Climate Control News - May 14, 2025

“This will be followed by a HFO ban from 2028/29.” A PFAS review is already underway in Europe with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and ...


PLASTICS AND HEALTH: “New evidence” sees phthalates in more critical light / EPA seeks ... - May 9, 2025

... Chemicals Authority (ECHA, Helsinki; www.echa.europa.eu) or the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, Washington, DC; www.epa.gov). Phthalates ...


Registry of REACH, CLP, BPR, POPs and PIC-obligations and recommendations addressed in forum projects : v 5.0, December 2024. - May 7, 2025

The present document gives an overview of the recommendations from the harmonised enforcement projects coordinated by the Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement (the Forum). Its sole intention is to inform the interested parties on the status of recommendations from the harmonised enforcement campaigns undertaken by the Forum. Those campaigns are projects adopted for execution by the Forum. There are three types of projects: REF-projects, BEF-projects and pilot projects. The main difference between the two types is that in principle all countries of the European Economic Area participate in REF-projects while this is not necessarily the case for pilot projects.


Registry of REACH, CLP, BPR, POPs and PIC-obligations and recommendations addressed in forum projects : v 5.0, December 2024. - May 7, 2025

The present document gives an overview of the recommendations from the harmonised enforcement projects coordinated by the Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement (the Forum). Its sole intention is to inform the interested parties on the status of recommendations from the harmonised enforcement campaigns undertaken by the Forum. Those campaigns are projects adopted for execution by the Forum. There are three types of projects: REF-projects, BEF-projects and pilot projects. The main difference between the two types is that in principle all countries of the European Economic Area participate in REF-projects while this is not necessarily the case for pilot projects.


In situ generated active substances and their products : information requirements and risk assessment for approval and authorisation : recommendations of the BPC Working Groups : version 2. - May 7, 2025

The initial document “Recommendation of the BPC Working Groups: In situ generated active substances – Risk assessment and implications on data requirements for active substances generated in situ and their precursors” was agreed by the four BPC working groups (APCP, Efficacy, TOX and ENV WGs) in 2016 and 2017 and published on the ECHA website in 2017. At their meeting in July 2019, the Biocidal Competent Authorities agreed on the necessity to further develop recommendations also for the biocidal products of in situ generated active substances - isASs (Member State's Competent Authorities for biocidal products, 2019). Therefore, based on the collected experience with the granted approvals of isAS and the assessment of their precursors, the recommendations have been updated (version 2) and a new part on the biocidal products has been included. Current document “Recommendation of the BPC Working Groups (version 2): In situ generated active substances and their products - Information requirements and risk assessment for approval and authorisation.” was discussed in all four BPC working groups and agreed in March 2025. Principles applied to “conventional” active substances and biocidal products apply also to the isAS and their products, unless specified otherwise in this document. These recommendations are focusing on additional information needed and on the particularities in the assessment of isAS, their precursor(s) and BPs. These recommendations are intended for BPR applicants for active substance approval and authorisation of biocidal products and for evaluating Member State Competent Authorities (eCAs).


Annual report 2024. - May 7, 2025

The Management Board welcomes the Annual Report 2024, fulfilling the requirements of the REACH Regulation (General Report)1 and those of the ECHA Financial Regulation (Consolidated Annual Activity Report)2. We consider that this report provides a comprehensive account of the activities carried out by ECHA during 2024, the performance of the Agency against the expected inputs, outputs and outcomes defined in the Single Programming Document 2024-20263. It also represents a fair overview of the evolution of ECHA’s budget, staffing, management, and its internal management system strategy and framework. This assessment is based on our analysis of all parts of the report, including the activities carried out, achievements, financial information, results of audits, retrospective evaluations, and the assessment of the internal control system, as well as the risks related to ECHA’s activities together with the corresponding mitigating measures.


Complying with CLP when making or importing candles. - May 6, 2025

A company based in the EU/EEA who makes or imports candles (including wax melts) needs to be aware that they may have legal obligations under EU chemicals regulations, and they need to consider these obligations before they place the candles on the EU market. Candle products are chemical mixtures under the EU regulations REACH and CLP. If a candle is classified as hazardous based on the CLP criteria (due to an added fragrance, for example), then the candle must comply with both the REACH Regulation as well as all the requirements of the CLP Regulations before it is placed on the market.


Concerns over cracks in REACH compliance - Plastemart.com - May 2, 2025

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EU REACH reform to increase costs and compliance pressure for cosmetics industry - April 23, 2025

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Bayesian benchmark dose modeling analysis and derivation of points of departure for female reproductive toxicity following exposure to di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) − effects on reproductive hormones, folliculogenesis and estrous cyclicity - April 21, 2025

Abstract
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) pose significant risks to human reproductive health. However, regulatory frameworks often lack sufficient data on sensitive female-specific reproductive endpoints. This study investigates the sensitivity of hypothalamic–pituitary–ovarian (HPO) axis endpoints to DEHP exposure in adult female mice, applying Bayesian Benchmark dose (BBMD) modeling for dose-response assessment and derivation of points-of-departure (PODs) for risk assessment.Data from four studies where sexually mature female mice were exposed to DEHP (0.02–240 mg/kg bw/day) for 10 or 30 days via oral administration, or 30 days via diet, was modeled. Endpoints included ovarian follicle counts, serum hormones, estrous cyclicity, body and organ weights. Results revealed dose-dependent changes and greater sensitivity of progesterone, ovarian follicle counts and uterine weight, compared to estrous cyclicity, body weight and other organ weights.For 10- and 30-day oral administration studies, the lowest non-zero BBMDLs were observed for serum progesterone levels (9.1 mg/kg bw/day) and primary follicle counts (19.5 mg/kg bw/day), respectively. These PODs were notably lower than most No-Adverse-Effect-Levels (NOAELs) in the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA’s) “Registered substances factsheet” and “ECHA CHEM” databases. The majority of the studies derived PODs based on male (reproductive) endpoints. Finally, a derived no-effect level (DNEL) of 0.064 mg DEHP/kg bw/day was estimated, based on the overall lowest BBMDL, serum progesterone levels of the 10-day oral study.In conclusion, our study indicates that current guidelines may not fully capture reproductive risks for females, underscoring the need to refine regulatory endpoints to better protect female reproductive health in the context of DEHP exposure.

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Estonian chemical industry lobby group protests potential ethanol ban | News | ERR - April 9, 2025

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Dying for a glass of wine? South African farm workers fight EU's 'toxic trade' in pesticides - April 6, 2025

... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and banned in the EU since 2009. Despite this, Dormex is just one on a long list of highly hazardous chemicals which ...


IAF: apparel buyers and suppliers should re-imagine relationships | Ecotextile News - April 1, 2025

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Rīga meeting brings together EMA, EEA, EU-OSHA, ECDC, ENISA, CEPOL, BEREC, ECHA ... - April 1, 2025

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