News

Majority of inspected products sold online breach EU chemicals laws

In the latest project of ECHA’s Enforcement Forum, enforcement authorities found that most inspected products sold online were non-compliant with at least one requirement under relevant EU chemicals legislation being checked.

The inspections resulted in more than 5 000 enforcement actions.

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REACH

First assessments of regulatory needs for groups of chemicals published

The first assessments cover over 450 substances in 19 groups. For 18 of these groups, regulatory risk management measures or further data are needed.

ECHA and Member States have been assessing the regulatory needs of groups of substances in an effort to speed up regulatory action on chemicals of concern, protecting people and the environment, and avoiding regrettable substitution.

Check if your substances have been assessed.

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New version of Chesar now available

An update of ECHA's chemical safety assessment and reporting tool, Chesar, has been published. Some known issues have been solved for the new version, Chesar 3.7. It is also fully compatible with the latest version of IUCLID 6.6. Updated versions of the installation manuals are also available.

Download Chesar 3.7

Call for evidence on possible restriction dossier for ortho-phthalates

We have launched a call for evidence to collect further information on a possible restriction dossier for 10 ortho-phthalates from the Authorisation List.

For these phthalates, a screening report under Article 69(2) has been drafted to investigate if their use in articles is adequately controlled. In addition, we are also collecting information on other ortho-phthalates where regulatory needs are being assessed.

We are requesting interested parties to provide relevant information during the call for evidence, which will be open until 26 January 2022.

Current calls for comments and evidence

CLP

New proposal and intentions to harmonise classification and labelling

A proposal has been submitted for 1,1-dichloroethylene (EC 200-864-0, CAS 75-35-4).

Three intentions have been received for:

2,3-epoxypropyl isopropyl ether (EC 223-672-9, CAS 4016-14-2);
2,2',6,6'-tetra-tert-butyl-4,4'-methylenediphenol (EC 204-279-1, CAS 118-82-1); and
Talc (Mg3H2(SiO3)4) (EC 238-877-9, CAS 14807-96-6).

Registry of CLH intentions until outcome

Biocides

Highlights from December BPC meeting

The Biocidal Products Committee adopted 16 opinions: 10 on the approval of active substances, two on Union authorisation and four addressing requests from the European Commission.

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