The substances ‘perfluorohexane-1-sulphonic acid and its salts (PFHxS)’ have been added to the Candidate List. This group of substances are used in flame retardants in protective c...

The fifth amendment to REACH Annex XIV, also known as the Authorisation list, was officially published on 14 June. Twelve Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs) have been added to...

A further 24 substances have been added to the public activities coordination tool (PACT). These substances are currently undergoing risk management option analysis or hazard asses...

The CLP regulation, and particularly the technical annexes, are updated yearly trough an ‘Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP)’. ATPs are adopted by the European Commission follo...

Active substances need to be approved before an authorisation for a biocidal product containing said active substances can be granted in the EU. However, the transitional provision...

The new Annex VIII to CLP, containing new arrangements for submissions to national poison centres, was published last week in the Official Journal as Commission Regulation (EU) 201...

ECHA has published the final Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) list for 2017-2019. The list now includes 115 substances, out of which 22 will be evaluated in 2017. These substa...

ECHA has added 60 new substances to the list of substances that might be chosen for compliance checks. Since the enhanced completeness check was introduced in June 2016, 33 % of th...

An IT screening of REACH registrations is conducted every year by ECHA and the Member State competent authorities with the aim to identify substances that pose a risk for human hea...