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ECHA starts work on making drinking water safer

ECHA will start to compile a list of substances that can be safely used in materials that come into contact with drinking water. The aim is to improve consumer protection and ensure equal safety standards for industry.

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Find out which pieces of EU legislation apply to your substance

The EU Chemicals Legislation Finder (EUCLEF) will go live in March enabling companies, especially SMEs, to find out how their substances are being regulated in the EU and what legal obligations they have. Through EUCLEF, you will have access to a much wider range of legislative information, seamlessly integrated into our chemicals database.

The online service is expected to cover 40 pieces of EU legislation and will later be expanded to include more. Read about the EUCLEF in our newsletter and follow our weekly news for the latest updates.

Call for evidence: Substances in single-use baby nappies

France is preparing an Annex XV restriction dossier concerning single use baby nappies containing PAHs, formaldehyde, dioxins, furans and PCBs for submission on 9 October 2020. ECHA is requesting interested parties to submit any information they have related to this restriction intention to help with the preparation of the dossier.

This call for evidence consultation is open until 31 March 2020 (midnight Helsinki time) and there will be an online information session for interested stakeholders on 30 January 2020 (11:00 Helsinki time).

Current calls for comments and evidence | Register for the online information session

Revised completeness check: what changes and how you can prepare

29 January 2020, 11:00 – 13:00 Helsinki time

The completeness check of REACH registrations will be revised in April 2020. It includes more explicit rules to ensure that registrants address information requirements for key hazard endpoints and strengthened checks for reporting the substance life cycle. The completeness check will also be extended to cover an area of the registration that was previously not verified – the chemical safety report.

Join our webinar to find out about the upcoming changes and get a head start in preparing your registration for the revised checks.

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New substance evaluation conclusion published

Three new substance evaluation conclusion documents are now available on ECHA’s website for:

polyethylene polyamine, pentaethylenehexamine fraction (EC 701-266-7, CAS -), added to the CoRAP list in 2018 and evaluated by the Czech Republic;
oxydiethylene dinitrate (EC 211-745-8, CAS 693-21-0), added to the CoRAP list in 2016 and evaluated by Italy;
butyl acrylate (EC 205-480-7, CAS 141-32-2), added to the CoRAP list in 2013 and evaluated by Sweden.

Community rolling action plan | Substance evaluation

Committees’ opinions on application for authorisation available

The consolidated opinions of the Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-economic Analysis for two uses of Pitch, coal tar, high-temp. (EC 266-028-2) by ArianeGroup are available on our website.

Opinions

CLP

Poison centre notifications 2020 – where are we now

12 February, 11:00 – 13:00 Helsinki time

Join our webinar for an update on the latest and upcoming developments for notifying your hazardous mixtures to poison centres. These include changes to Annex VIII and improvements to our IT tools and available support.

It also gives you the chance to ask questions from our experts on the regulatory and IT aspects of the notification process.

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New proposals and intentions to harmonise classification and labelling

Seven proposals have been submitted for:

dibutyltin maleate (EC 201-077-5, CAS 78-04-6);
dibutyltin oxide (EC 212-449-1, CAS 818-08-6);
ethyl acrylate (EC 205-438-8, CAS 140-88-5);
allyl methacrylate (EC 202-473-0, CAS 96-05-9);
methyl acrylate (EC 202-500-6, CAS 96-33-3);
metribuzin (ISO); 4-amino-6-tert-butyl-3-methylthio-1,2,4-triazin-5(4H)-one (EC 244-209-7, CAS 21087-64-9); and
difenoconazole (ISO); 1-({2-[2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)phenyl]-4-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl}methyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole; 3-chloro-4-[(2RS,4RS;2RS,4SR)-4-methyl-2-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl]phenyl 4-chlorophenyl ether (EC 601-613-1, CAS 119446-68-3).

Registry of CLH intentions

Biocides

Want to keep using amines, C10-16-alkyldimethyl, N-oxides in food and feed?

Companies have withdrawn their interest to get amines, C10-16-alkyldimethyl, N-oxides (EC 274-687-2, CAS 70592-80-2) approved in the biocides review programme for use in food and feed (product-type 4).

Notify us by 14 January 2021 to keep these substances in the approval process.

Upcoming deadlines

Board of Appeal

Announcement of new appeal

The Board of Appeal has published an announcement in case A-015-2019 concerning a testing proposal decision.

Announcement

Guest corner

Guest Corner: What are forever chemicals and why should you care about them?

Check the latest contribution where Dr Anna Lennquist, a senior toxicologist at ChemSec – the International Chemical Secretariat, which is an independent non-profit organisation advocating the substitution of toxic chemicals with safer alternatives. She writes about forever chemicals – often referred to as chemicals from the PFAS group – and discusses why they are the focus of society and authorities at the moment.

We invite stakeholders to contribute articles on their work and priorities related to chemicals in our everyday life in a new initiative that we call the Guest Corner.

Chemicals in our life - Guest corner

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