ECHA Adds Five (5) Hazardous Chemicals to the Candidate List – Is Your Business Prepared?

ECHA Adds Five (5) Hazardous Chemicals to the Candidate List – Is Your Business Prepared?

The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) has grown to 247 entries, following ECHA's latest update. These substances, which pose risks to human health...

REACH Restriction: Implications for companies

REACH Restriction: Implications for companies

The aim of REACH restrictions is to protect human health and the environment by limiting or banning the use, manufacturing, or marketing of chemicals that pose unacceptable...

EU PCN Inspections start in January 2025. Are you compliant with Article 45 of EU CLP?

EU PCN Inspections start in January 2025. Are you compliant with Article 45 of EU CLP?

Background Article 45 of CLP requires importers and downstream users to notify hazardous mixtures to the appointed bodies (i.e. poison centers) using the harmonized format (Annex VIII)...

ESPR Myths and Truths

ESPR Myths and Truths

The new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) (EU) 2024/1781, which entered into force on 18 July 2024, aims to make sustainable products the norm in the EU...

REACH restriction proposal to all 11 Cr(VI) compounds on the authorisation list

REACH restriction proposal to all 11 Cr(VI) compounds on the authorisation list

REACH restriction proposal extended to 11 CrVI compounds The ongoing REACH restriction proposal for CrVI compounds has been extended to all 11 CrVI entries on the REACH...

1 January 2024: Poison Centre Notification deadline for industrial use mixtures

1 January 2024: Poison Centre Notification deadline for industrial use mixtures

Background Information:  Article 45 of CLP requires importers and downstream users to notify hazardous mixtures to the appointed bodies (i.e, poison centers) using the harmonized format (Annex...

Who can appoint an Only Representative under EU REACH?

Who can appoint an Only Representative under EU REACH?

According to Article 8(1) of REACH, a natural or legal person established outside of the EU who manufactures substances, formulates mixtures or produces articles, can nominate an...

REACH authorisation decision for surface treatment uses of chromium trioxide annulled

REACH authorisation decision for surface treatment uses of chromium trioxide annulled

Yesterday, the Court of justice annulled the decision that granted authorisation for specific uses of chromium trioxide. The judgement (C-144/21) also ruled that the effects of the...

The “universal” PFAS restriction proposal has been published – What’s next?

The “universal” PFAS restriction proposal has been published – What’s next?

On the 7th of February 2023 the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published the long awaited “universal” PFAS restriction proposal prepared by the competent authorities in Denmark,...

What is the REACH Revision?

What is the REACH Revision?

Under the European Green Deal (2019) and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability “CSS” (2020) the European Commission aims to revise the rules governing the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation...

New developments on the implementation of SAGA concept in the REACH authorisation process for decorative plating

New developments on the implementation of SAGA concept in the REACH authorisation process for decorative plating

Are there “suitable alternatives generally available” (SAGA) to the use of chromium trioxide for decorative chrome plating? ECHA hosted a workshop on the 10th October 2022 to address this question....

Suzhou MOCA authorisation – Updates

Suzhou MOCA authorisation – Updates

Important update for downstream users of MOCA relying on the Authorisation application submitted by REACHLaw acting as Only Representative for SUZHOU XIANGYUAN NEW MATERIALS CO., LTD. We...

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