The Biocidal Products Committee adopts its first opinions

The opinions concern approval of two active substances, permethrin and tralopyril, and two are responding to specific questions from the Commission.

News alert | Biocidal Products Committee

ECHA invites companies to check the provisional list of biocidal active substance suppliers

The Agency has launched an exercise to verify the correctness of the information contained in the provisional list of biocidal suppliers.

News alert | Procedure to request a modification | Guidance on active substance suppliers | List of active substance suppliers

A new ECHA-EASA report highlights the key aspects of the authorisation process for the aviation industry

The publication clarifies the issues of the interplay between the strict airworthiness requirements and the REACH authorisation process and it provides best practice advice that can also benefit other industry sectors.

News alert | Report [PDF]

ECHA's scientific committees give green-light on a specific use of dibutyl phthalate (DBP)

ECHA's scientific committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-economic Analysis have adopted opinions on an application for authorisation from Sasol-Huntsman GmbH & Co. This application concerned the use of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) as an absorption solvent in a closed system in the manufacture of maleic anhydride.

The committees concluded that adequate control has been demonstrated and proposed to review the authorisation in 12 years. The European Commission will make the final decision on the application, based on ECHA's opinions.

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Save the date: 16 September 2014 – Workshop on the Safe Use of Chemicals by SMEs, European Commission, Brussels

16 September 2014, Brussels

The workshop aims to address the challenges faced by companies (in particular SMEs) to comply with the new rules for classification, labelling and packaging of mixtures introduced by the CLP Regulation by June 2015.

Stakeholders are invited to participate and contribute to the discussions: industry associations, business support organisations, trade unions, consumer associations, competent authorities and the national CLP helpdesks, as well as all other organisations whose members need to know about and/or comply with the CLP Regulation.

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