Keyword: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
News
07.02.2018
- The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has recommended that seven substances of very high concern (SVHCs) be added to the REACH Authorization list (Annex XIV). The agency said they...
News
17.01.2018
- The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added seven chemicals as substances of very high concern (SVHC) to the candidate list. Five of the SVHCs have been identified as...
News
14.12.2017
- The European Commission’s five-year extension of registration for the controversial herbicide active ingredient glyphosate took effect on Dec. 12. The existing license had been due...
Markets & Companies
24.11.2017
- In a little over a year, the UK will be withdrawing from the European Union. Yet the future of the country and its chemicals industry is even more uncertain now than it was when a...
News
26.10.2017
- The EU has again failed to reach agreement on renewing authorization for use of glyphosate. No formal vote was taken at the Commission meeting on Oct. 25, as an initial round of...
News
03.10.2017
- The management board of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has appointed Bjorn Hansen, head of the chemicals unit at the European Commission’s Environment Directorate-General, as...
News
07.07.2017
- Two large-scale studies examining the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics) on bee populations published last week in the journal Science suggested that they may be harmful...
News
21.06.2017
- The Member State Committee (MSC) of the EU, acting on a proposal made by France, has unanimously voted to add bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical used to produce the engineering...
