Jul 19, 2022 | European Commission seeks to reinforce rules on the sustainable use of pesticides
On 22 June 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Adopted in 2009, the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive sought to...
Jul 19, 2022 | DEFRA consults on the extension of transitional registration deadlines under UK REACH
The UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has begun consultation on the extension of UK REACH registration deadlines. UK REACH established a transitional system whereby substa...
European Commission sketches timeline for adoption of key legislative proposals
Jul 18, 2022
On 29 June 2022, the European Commission published its draft agenda for the second half of 2022. The agenda contains the meetings to take place between July and December 2022. Approval of a text at a ...
South Korea provides the list of banned substance for insecticide
Jul 14, 2022
The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea provides the list of banned substances for insecticide under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BP...
South Korea updates the hazard review of chemical substances
Jul 14, 2022
The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-R...
China MEE-SCC clarifies several new chemical substance registration questions
Jul 14, 2022
On the 30th of June, the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Center under the Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE-SCC) published a FAQ document which specified several hot debated question...
US EPA consults on TCE and Methylene Chloride as harmful substances
Jul 12, 2022
On the 11th of July 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US notifies and seeks comment on a draft revision for trichloroethylene (TCE) risk evaluation issued under TSCA. The old d...
UK REACH Work Programme
Jul 12, 2022
In June, the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published Work Programme 2022/23 detailing the UK REACH activities carried out in the last calendar year and the activities HSE will carry out for...
India to ban heavy metals in Dipentene
Jul 11, 2022
A proposed amended standard that would prohibit the use of heavy metals in dipentene, which is used to make paints, enamel, lacquers, and polishes, is being discussed by India until July 25. The fo...
India bans single-use plastics
Jun 30, 2022
Single-use plastics are plastic goods that are used once and then discarded. One of the largest percentages of plastic produced and used is single-use plastic, which includes food packaging, polythene...
US EPA publishes new use rules for toxic substances
Jul 07, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for chemical substances that are subject to premanufacture notices (PMNs). ...
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