Webinars
Webinars
Join our webinars to learn about your legal obligations, get the latest hands-on advice on a wide range of topics and use the opportunity to ask questions from our experts.
Webinars are pre-recorded information sessions that include presentations, videos and other interactive features such as questions and answers.
You can watch each event and join a live Q&A on our home page at the indicated start time. No registration is required.
All webinars are announced on this page as soon as they are confirmed. Subscribe to our weekly news to get updates about upcoming events.
You can find recordings, presentations as well as questions and answers from previous events on this page.
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11/05/2023
11:00 - 16:00 EEST GMT +2
- Description
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The webinar introduces the latest version of IUCLID (version 6.7) to be released at the end of April 2023.
This version reflects the first format changes since October 2021, and contains the latest Data Reporting standards as agreed at the OECD level, as well as updates to other formats that support Data Reporting for specific regulations in EU, New Zealand and Australia.
This version also contains a range of improvements to IUCLID functionalities that will support the data entry and export, as well as the re-use of data (see the highlights here).
During the webinar, we will provide an overview of the format changes and new functionalities. We will also have a Sli.do session to answer your questions on the day.
Programme
Timing
Title
Speaker
11:00
Introduction to the April 2023 release
To be anounced
11:10
Overview of format changes
To be anounced
11:35
Demonstration of new functionalities
To be anounced
11:50
Conclusions and further information available
To be anounced
11:00 – 16:00
Sli.Do open for questions
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11/05/2023
11:00 - 16:00 EEST GMT +2 - More details
- Webinar page
26/04/2023
15:00 - 16:30 EEST GMT +2
- Description
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Substitution and analysis of alternatives of the most hazardous biocidal active substances are topics of growing interest. This webinar will feature several tools and initiatives supporting stakeholders in the process of moving to safer alternatives. The event should be of particular interest for applicants of biocidal active substances, downstream users, suppliers of alternatives, authorities and consultants.
You will be able to send questions from 19 April 12:00 until the end of the event. Panellists will be answering live during the webinar on 26 April until 16:30.
Programme
Timing
Title
Speaker
15:00
Introduction
Adam Elwan, ECHA
15:05
Guidance on analysis of alternatives to biocidal active substances and online training
Denis Mottet, ECHA
15:10
Subsport: database on alternatives and case studies
Michaela Clever, German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - BAuA
15:20
Non-chemical alternatives: importance and challenges with their assessment
Stefanie Wieck, German Environment Agency - UBA
15:30
Field testing of alternatives to biocidal antifouling paints: the practical support of a Member State
Bob Vermeent, Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
15:40
ChemSec’s Marketplace: a platform to find and offer safer alternatives
Jonatan Kleimark, ChemSec
15:50
Wrap up
Adam Elwan, ECHA
15:55
Live Q&A
All presenters
16:30
Closure
More on the topic:
Substitution to safer chemicals
New framework guidance and reporting template published in January 2023
Implementation note - Date
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26/04/2023
15:00 - 16:30 EEST GMT +2 - More details
- Webinar page
19/04/2023
11:00 - 12:00 EEST GMT +2
- Description
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Are you using ECHA’s public Information on chemicals database? If your answer is yes, this webinar is for you. In this first session, we will tell you about our plans for the new Data availability system which will gradually replace our current dissemination platform. We will have further, more detailed sessions later in the year as the development advances.
ECHA maintains the largest database on chemicals in the European Union. This database brings together the chemicals data submitted by the industry and the information generated in the regulatory activities of ECHA and authorities. In 2022 the dissemination platform received over 30 million pageviews.
Due to an increasing amount and variety of data to be made available, ECHA is building a new system: the new Data availability system. The new solution will be rolled out in several steps during the next couple of years. We will start with the REACH registration data in the end of this year, followed by the Classification and labelling inventory and the regulatory data. The aim of this webinar is to let you know what to expect and to help you prepare for the changes.
Join from our home page on 19 April at 11:00 EET, GMT +2. No registration is required.
Send us questions throughout the event. Our experts will be answering until 12:00.
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19/04/2023
11:00 - 12:00 EEST GMT +2 - More details
- Webinar page
05/04/2023
11:00 - 13:00 GMT +2
- Description
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Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have proposed a REACH restriction to address the risks to the environment and human health from the manufacture, placing on the market and use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs).
A six-month consultation on the proposal starts on 22 March 2023. Join the event to learn about the restriction proposal, how the REACH restriction process works and how to participate in the consultation.
Follow from our home page on 5 April at 11:00 EEST GMT +2. No registration is required. The event will be streamed from our YouTube channel EUchemicals. If you wish to receive a notification before the start of the streaming you can subscribe to the channel.
The recording of the event will be published on this page shortly after the broadcast.The QnA session will be organised with Sli.Do platform. We encourage you to send your questions well ahead of the event. Having the questions in advance helps the five national authorities and ECHA to prepare and respond to as many questions as possible during the live QnA session until 13:00.
You can submit your questions the window below or using this link.
Background
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are very persistent in the environment. If their releases are not minimised, people, plants and animals will be increasingly exposed, resulting in harmful effects.
Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have drawn up a proposal to restrict PFAS in Europe (currently more than 10 000 substances). The authorities estimate that around 4.5 million tonnes of PFAS will end up in the environment over the next 30 years unless action is taken.
The proposed restriction on PFAS is set to be one of the largest ever on chemical substances in the EU.
More on the topic:
• Video: Media briefing – Banning PFASs in the EU
• ECHA publishes PFAS restriction – ECHA news release, 7 February 2023
• ECHA receives PFASs restriction proposal from five national authorities - ECHA news release, 23 January 2023
• More on PFAS - Date
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05/04/2023
11:00 - 13:00 GMT +2 - More details
- Webinar page