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14 paź 2020 · The EU's chemicals strategy aims to better protect citizens and the environment from harmful chemicals and boost innovation for safe and sustainable ones. It covers topics such as banning, phasing out, assessing, and labelling chemicals, as well as promoting global standards and resilience.
Learn about the EU's comprehensive and protective regulatory framework for chemicals, supported by an advanced knowledge base. Find out how the EU aims to better protect citizens and the environment, boost innovation and implement the chemicals strategy.
The CLP Regulation requires companies to classify, label and package their chemicals before placing them on the market. It incorporates the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and aims to protect workers, consumers and the environment.
20 sty 2022 · The Commission seeks views on how to align the EU chemical rules with the ambition for safe and sustainable chemicals and a high level of protection of health and the environment. The consultation covers topics such as registration, assessment, communication, authorisation, restriction and control of chemicals.
REACH is the main EU law to protect human health and the environment from the risks of chemicals. It requires industry to register, evaluate, authorise and restrict substances, and provides consumers with information on hazardous products.
9 sie 2021 · It is also an opportunity to foster substitution of hazardous chemicals by safer ones and to promote EU industry as a global frontrunner in the production and use of safe and sustainable chemicals. The Commission is currently undertaking an impact assessment to decide on the most appropriate way forward and has launched a public consultation as part of this exercise.
The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability outlines over 80 actions to protect human health and the environment from the most harmful substances and promote safe and sustainable chemicals. The Commission provides updates on the implementation, engages with stakeholders, and proposes criteria and restrictions for endocrine disruptors, PFAS, essential uses and more.
5 maj 2021 · The Chemicals Strategy aims to boost innovation for safe and sustainable chemicals, and increase protection of human health and the environment against hazardous chemicals. It also announced that the Commission will establish a high-level roundtable to achieve the strategy’s objectives through dialogue with the stakeholders concerned.
The Prior Informed Consent Regulation governs the trade of certain hazardous chemicals that are banned or severely restricted in the EU. It places obligations on companies that wish to export these chemicals to non-EU countries or import them into the EU. The Regulation implements the Rotterdam Convention within the EU.
Chemicals are any substance that has a defined composition. The information provided here relates to manufactured chemicals and how to manage them.
