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Jul 11 2019 Endocrine disrupting properties to be added for four phthalates in the Authorisation List ECHA has submitted a recommendation to the European Commission to amend Authorisation List (Annex XIV of REACH) entries by adding the endocrine disrupting properties of four phthalates. Once the Comm...
Jul 10 2019 Japan to Restrict Exports of Three Chemicals Key to Semiconductor Industry in South Korea Takehome ： Japan announced that it will remove South Korea from the “whitelist” in the Export Trade Management Order through an amendment act, and South Korea’s imports from Japan will lose prefe...
Jul 09 2019 Australia SWA Consults on Proposal to Adopt GHS 7 On July 3, 2019, the Safe Work Australia (SWA) opened a consultation on the proposal to adopt an updated version of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) f...
Jul 08 2019 Vietnam to Establish National Operation Center Tasked with Elimination of Toxic Chemical Hazards Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently decided to establish a national operation center for eliminating toxic chemical hazards and minimizing environmental accidents. Part of the plan i...
Jul 05 2019 India to Ban Import of Plastic Waste from August 2019 On June 24 th, in Rajya Sabha, India’s environment minister Prakash Javadekar outlined policy steps India will take to curb pollution including an upcoming ban on import of plastic waste starting fr...
Jul 04 2019 Major update to ECHA’s information on chemicals database Several new features and improvements are now publicly available in the information on chemicals database. These include new information in substance Infocards, quick links to deeper datasets for eac...
Jul 03 2019 New Zealand EPA Releases HSNO Enforcement Report 2018 On June 27, 2019, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) of New Zealand published the HSNO Enforcement Report 2018 . The report looks at the enforcement of the Hazardous Substances and New Orga...
Jul 02 2019 MOFCOM Reinstates Anti-dumping Measures on Toluidine Imported from EU Takehome: Starting on June 28, 2019 China MOFCOM reinstated anti-dumping measures on toluidine imported from EU. The anti-dumping tax rate is 19.6% for LANXESS Deutschland GmbH and 36.9% for all othe...
Jul 01 2019 Biocidal Products Committee concludes on Union authorisations for disinfectants and pest control The committee adopted four opinions, including one on the non-approval of an active substance and three on Union authorisation. The Biocidal Products Committee (BPC) adopted one opinion concluding th...
Jun 28 2019 MSC unanimously agrees that HFPO-DA is a substance of very high concern The Member State Committee (MSC) supported the Dutch proposal to identify HFPO-DA, its salts and acyl halides as substances of very high concern due to their probable serious effects on human health ...
Jun 27 2019 ECHA releases new submission portal for poison centres ECHA has released a new portal that allows companies to prepare and submit information on hazardous mixtures that can be used by poison centres. ECHA’s submission portal for poison centres is a secu...
Jun 26 2019 Enforcement Forum: inspectors to look into classification of mixtures The Forum agreed to conduct a pilot project to check the classification of mixtures, including detergents and cleaning products. It will also explore with ECHA’s stakeholders, whether they can take ...
Jun 25 2019 ECHA to scrutinise all REACH registrations by 2027 ECHA will start to evaluate 20 % of registration dossiers in each tonnage band to improve the compliance of REACH registrations. This will mean approximately 30 % of all registered chemicals will be ...
Jun 24 2019 Improving compliance is ECHA's key priority Non-compliant information on chemicals is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. Progress has been made with evaluation but further measures are planned to raise the percentage of dossiers checked a...
Jun 21 2019 Management Board supports efforts to improve REACH authorisation and evaluation ECHA’s Management Board has expressed its confidence in the plans to adjust the process for applications for authorisation. The Board also welcomed the joint action plan of ECHA and the European Com...

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