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Jan 29, 2021 | Colombia's chemical legislation might be right around the corner
In 2020 Colombia became the third Latin American country to join the OECD. As a membership requirement, the country has to develop a chemicals management system, including chemical regulation. The...
Jan 28, 2021 | Japan published 2021 schedule for low volume permit applications
Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MoE) in 2021 has published the schedule for companies to notify new chemical substances manufactured or imported in volumes of less than 10 tonnes/year, or apply f...
Russia has now published the finalized version of the inventory!
Jan 28, 2021
Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) has now published the finalized version of the inventory of chemical substances. The finalized version contains +80.000 substances notified to...
UK REACH has entered into force
Jan 22, 2021
Following the end of the Brexit transition period on 1st January 2021, the UK REACH Regulation is now in force. UK REACH, which has been described as mirroring its EU counterpart, applies instead...
India: Nine new BIS Standards for Chemicals to become mandatory
Jan 21, 2021
On January 11, 2021, a stakeholder consultation meeting was organized by Additional Secretary (Chem) to discuss BIS standards of 12 chemicals. Nine of the twelve standards under consideration...
Final Versions of Technical Guidelines of MEE Order 12 Released
Jan 20, 2021
On the 24 December 2020, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) released the final versions of technical risk assessment guidelines. These guidelines will guide and regulate risk assess...
Two new substances added to SVHC List
Jan 19, 2021
ECHA has added two new substances to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorization on 19 January 2021. Now the list contains 211 substances in total. These two...
238 Substances added to the List of Existing Substances in China
Jan 19, 2021
On 21 Dec. 2020, China MEE announced that the second batch of 238 substances have fulfilled the requirements for IECSC supplementation and will be managed as existing chemical substances. ...
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