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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)- April update
By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar, Marie Escorneboueu, Francesca Puttock
EUROPEAN UNION PFAS restriction under REACH – Next steps. Experts from the Socio-Economic Assessment Committee will meet from 9 to 11 June. They will receive an update on the outcome…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)- March update
By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar, Marie Escorneboueu, Francesca Puttock
EUROPEAN UNION PFAS restriction under REACH – RAC opinion adopted, SEAC draft opinion agreed and public consultation launched. A major milestone has been reached in the EU generic restriction process…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)
By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar, Francesca Puttock
EUROPEAN UNION PFAS universal restriction under REACH – opinions expected in March. ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) is expected to adopt its Opinion on the proposed universal PFAS restriction…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)
By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar, Francesca Puttock
European Union ECHA scientific committees on track to finalise opinions on the PFAS restriction. ECHA confirmed on 17 December that its two scientific committees, the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) and…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) in Europe
By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar
European Union Universal PFAS Restriction – In their first meetings of 2025, the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) and the Socio-Economic Analysis Committee (SEAC) of ECHA continued evaluating the EU-wide proposal…
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Delays in REACH Procedures: EU Ombudsman Identifies Maladministration
By Thomas Delille, Marie Escorneboueu
On 21 October 2024, the EU Ombudsman issued Recommendations in the context of her own-initiative investigation on ‘The risk management of dangerous chemical substances by the European Commission’ (Case OI/2/2023/MIK). The…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) – September 2024
European Union PFHxA Restriction: The European Commission has introduced new restrictions on undecafluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA), a substance that is a part of the PFAS family, and related substances under the…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) – July 2024
European Union New EU Commissioner’s statement on PFAS – Re-elected as the head of the European Commission for another five years on 18 July, Ursula von der Leyen has pledged…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) – March 2024
European Union PFAS REACH Restriction – The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) issued an update stating that the countries which proposed the restriction on PFAS last year (including Germany, Denmark, the…
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Latest Updates on Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) – February 2024
European Union Recent intelligence indicates that the ECHA's Risk Assessment and ECHA's Socio-economic analysis Committees opinion on the REACH restriction proposal might be delayed until September 2025. If confirmed, a…