ChemRegs Newsletter – January 2019 New Guidance for Pollution Prevention published As you may (or may not) be aware, the Environment Agency (EA) no longer provides ‘good practice’ guidance and has removed this from its guidance documents. This came about as a result of Defra’s Smarter Environmental Regulation review (as part of the Red Tape Challenge) and meant that the Pollution Prevention … Read More

ChemRegs Newsletter – December 2018 14th ATP to CLP The European Commission (EC) is has opened a consultation on the 14th adaptation to technical progress (ATP) of the CLP Regulation. The purpose of this draft Regulation is to amend table 3 to Annex VI of the CLP Regulation by introducing new or revised entries for the harmonised classification and labelling … Read More

ChemRegs Newsletter – November 2018 ECHA Launching new Biocidal Products Database ECHA intends to make more information on biocides available from the end of November. A consumer will be able to pick up a biocidal product in a shop and type its name into the ECHA public database. They will be able to see a map of the countries where the … Read More