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India amends Plastic Waste Management Rules

May 03, 2023 | India amends Plastic Waste Management Rules

On 27 April 2023 the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change published a notification in the Gazette of India announcing the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2023. The Rul...

EPR for packaging materials Plastics
31 associations urge the EU to Adopt Rules to Calculated Plastics’ Chemically Recycled Content

May 03, 2023 | 31 associations urge the EU to Adopt Rules to Calculated Plastics’ Chemically Recycled Content

On 22 March 2023 the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) and 30 other associations representing market sectors in the European plastics value chain published a joint letter to the European Comm...

Plastics Single-Use Plastics Directive
China revises the national standard on Lip moisturizer gel cream
China revises the national standard on Lip moisturizer gel cream
May 03, 2023

The Standardization Administration of China and State Administration for Market Regulation jointly published the revised version of national standard on Lip moisturizer (gel and cream), GB/T 26513-202...

Cosmetic Products Cosmetic Supervision and Administration Regulations (CSAR)
Mandatory Survey to collect PFAS information will be issued by Canada
Mandatory Survey to collect PFAS information will be issued by Canada
Apr 27, 2023

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has published a statement which confirms their plan  to issue a mandatory survey. The objective of this survey is to collect information on certain per- an...

Chemical industry Deadline
 Cosmetics biocide chlorocresol to be listed as toxic substance in Canada
Cosmetics biocide chlorocresol to be listed as toxic substance in Canada
Apr 27, 2023

On 1 April 2023, the Canadian government announced that they are taking steps to limit the potential risks associated with the use of chlorocresol in cosmetics by proposing an order to add it to the l...

Cosmetic Products Deadline Environment
South Korea consults on a draft amendment for the Regulation on chemical substance classification and labelling
South Korea consults on a draft amendment for the Regulation on chemical substance classification and labelling
Apr 26, 2023

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea is consulting on a draft amendment of the Regulation on chemical substance classification and labelling under the Act on Registra...

K-REACH Labelling Substance & mixture classification

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