Overview

European Court of Auditors reviews EU response to growing plastic waste and regulation enacted to address it; warns EU member states not to underestimate challenge of achieving 50%...

The upcoming Chemicals for Sustainability strategy, part of the Green Deal, will be presented on October 14. It will most likely tackle several relevant challenges in risk assessment,...

Following the current path, the transition period will end at the end of the year, and the UK will become officially separated form the EU-27 on 1/1/2021. The regime for UK chemical...

Restriction intention submitted to European Chemicals Agency (ECHA); aims to limit bisphenol A (BPA) and structurally similar bisphenols to maximum concentration of 0.02% by weight...

The Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), North America’s leading certifier of compostable products and packaging, today announced the release of a first-of-its-kind set of labeling...

An Inception Roadmap consultation has been opened until 02 November. The initiative aims to revise and expand EcoDesign initiative (currently only for energy products) to a diverse...

ECHA announced that they received a notification from the Greek competent authority of their intention to submit a dossier for the harmonization of the classification of Ethanol by...

On September 2, the European Commission published the 15th amendment to the FCM regulation 10/2011. New substances added to positive list, more stringent migration limits defined, migration...

The CARACAL subgroup for polymers met for the first time on September 11 to discuss how to define the requirements for polymer registration under REACH.

The new President of UNFEA was appointed during the General Assembly which took place by videoconference on 26 June 2020.