ChemRegs Newsletter – May 2017 CLP – 1 June 2017 June 2015 marked the deadline for suppliers and manufacturers of chemical products to stop using the old CHIP regulations to determine the hazardous categories of their products, and to start using EU Regulation 1272/2008 on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (CLP). CHIP was an abbreviation for … Read More

ChemRegs Newsletter – April 2017 REACH May 2018 SME Guidance The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (UKCSF) has updated its 2015 SMEs and downstream user guidance on the 2018 REACH Registration deadline. The revised guidance is dated 27 April 2017 and provides a brief introduction to the registration element of REACH. UKCSF advises government on managing risks to the environment and … Read More

ChemRegs Newsletter – March 2017 REACH after Brexit – update In our January and February Newsletters we reported on the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the future of chemicals regulation after we leave the European Union. This is particularly salient now that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has been invoked and the government has set out how … Read More