News

Immediate risk management suggested for 300 harmful chemicals

Assessing chemicals in groups has sped up authorities’ work, with assessments for 1 900 substances finalised in 2021. For around 300 of these, risk management actions could begin immediately.

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Finding the most effective ways to manage chemical risks

Do you want to know more about our ways of working and dig a bit deeper into our priorities? Keep an eye on our new articles that will bring you more details and background to our work.

The first article is now online! Read the interview with Mark Blainey, Head of our Prioritisation Unit, who tells you what we do to find the most effective ways to manage chemical risks.

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Scientific committees

Highlights from June BPC meeting

Our Biocidal Products Committee (BPC) adopted a record number of opinions during its June meeting. These concern nine opinions on Union authorisation, five on active substance applications and 10 on requests from the European Commission.

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Enforcement Forum

Highlights from June Forum meeting

The Enforcement Forum discussed its on-going enforcement projects, including preliminary results of an EU-wide project on REACH authorisation and a pilot project on recovered substances.

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REACH

Consultations on restriction proposals

We are looking for comments on the proposed restriction of:

Terphenyl, hydrogenated (EC 262-967-7, CAS 61788-32-7);
N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC) and 1-ethylpyrrolidin-2-one (NEP) (EC -, CAS -).

The commenting period is from 20 June 2022 to 20 December 2022.

Our scientific committees welcome early comments by 20 July 2022.

Submitted restrictions under consideration

Assessment of a substance group published

New reports are now available for:

To get a full list of the substances covered in this group you can filter the list by group name.

Assessment of regulatory needs

New substance evaluation conclusions published

New documents are now available on our website for:

1,4,5,6,7,7-hexachloro-8,9,10-trinorborn-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride (EC 204-077-3, CAS 115-27-5), added to the CoRAP list in 2013 and evaluated by France; and
Barium bis[2-chloro-5-[(2-hydroxy-1-naphthyl)azo]toluene-4-sulphonate] (EC 225-935-3, CAS 5160-02-1), added to the CoRAP list in 2020 and evaluated by Germany.

Community rolling action plan | Substance evaluation

Testing proposals

We have launched 29 new consultations on testing proposals. The deadline for comments is 1 August 2022.

There are currently 70 open consultations on testing proposals.

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Biocides

Consultation on derogation to the exclusion criteria for propiconazole

Active substances that meet the exclusion criteria can only be approved (or renewed) if they meet one or more of the following derogation criteria:

exposure is negligible;
the active substance is essential to prevent a serious danger to human or animal health or the environment; or
not approving the substance would have a disproportionate negative impact on society when compared to the risks.

Give your comments on whether the conditions for derogation are met for propiconazole for product-type 8 by 15 August 2022.

Give comments | BPC opinion

Nanomaterials

Contribute to the work of the EUON

The European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) conducts up to three studies annually to address knowledge gaps on nanomaterials on the EU market.

EUON is now looking for topics for its upcoming studies. Take the chance to contribute to the work of the observatory and submit your proposal by 18 July 2022!

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Litigation

Court judgment

The Court of Justice upholds General Court judgments dismissing damages actions against the Commission (Case C-65/2 P, C-73/21 P to C75/21 P).

These cases concerned appeals brought by a number of companies against judgments of the General Court dismissing actions for damages against the European Commission for wrongly classifying the substance coal tar pitch high temperature (CTPHT) as toxic to the aquatic environment. ECHA intervened in support of the Commission.

In its judgments of 13 June 2022, the European Court of Justice dismissed the appeals in their entirety.

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