Policy & Regulation

The government is likely to impose anti-dumping duty of up to USD 136.21 per tonne on import of a certain type of Chinese glass in a bid to protect domestic players from cheap imports.

• Glass
• China
• Anti-Dumping
• Import

The Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules and other documents Thursday outlining how it will regulate toxic chemicals under a landmark law passed by Congress last year.

• EPA
• Toxic
• Chemical

New chemical control legislation has been submitted to the government for signing and is expected within two months.

• Vietnam
• Chemical

If UK ditches REACH, such firms might need to become registrants.

• Ireland
• REACH
• UK
• Substance Registration

A call for nano-specific adaptations of the legal framework of REACH by 2020 was presented to a meeting of EU environment ministers on Monday.

• Europe
• Nanomaterials
• REACH

Canada has proposed to conclude that 162 substances are not a threat to human health or the environment, based on the results of two draft screening assessments.

• Canada
• Environment

The governments of Canada and the US are soliciting feedback to inform the ongoing development of binational strategies for managing identified chemicals of mutual concern (CMC), including PCBs and HBCD.

• Bioaccumulative
• Toxic
• US
• Canada

Poor dossier quality is slowing substance evaluation.

• REACH
• Europe

NGO and industry law firm disagree on agency’s interpretation.

• EPA

The European Commission has granted authorisations to five companies for a use of sodium dichromate.

• EU
• Sodium Dichromate

Echa's Member State Committee (MSC) has agreed with a proposal from France that bisphenol A (BPA) is a substance of very high concern (SVHC) due to its endocrine disrupting properties that cause probable serious effects to human health.

• MSC
• BPA
• Endocrine

The US EPA has submitted a guidance document for developing risk evaluations under TSCA to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

• TSCA
• EPA

The European Commission has published its amending Regulation to restrict the manufacture, marketing and use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related substances.

• EU

Canada has added fuel oil, No 2 to schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (Cepa) – the toxic substances list.

• Toxic
• Canada

UK prime minister Theresa May’s failure to secure a majority for her Conservative party at the general election last week could mean a ‘soft’ Brexit is more likely, according to chemical industry associations.

• UK
• Brexit

Publicly naming companies that submit poor quality REACH registration dossiers is not the best way forward, Echa head Geert Dancet has told Chemical Watch.

• REACH

The European Commission has added 12 SVHCs to REACH Annex XIV – the authorisation list.

• EU
• REACH
• Substances

The European Commission, Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers will discuss proposed amendments to the RoHS Directive at their trilogue meeting on 21 June.

• RoHS
• EU

California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has released the first version of the alternatives analysis guide that will be used to support its Safer Consumer Products (SCP) programme.

• Toxic
• Policies

Global demand for liquid silicone rubber is on course to reach $3.29 billion by 2025, according to a report by Grand View Research Inc.

• Rubber