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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 of the public consultation held on the draft SEAC opinion from 26 March to 25 May. Commissioner Roswall on the other hand announced in the...
May 2026 | Blog
The Commission has released on 4 May a new set of measures and documents under the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (‘EUDR’). These correspond to an obligation set on the Commission in the context of the adoption of the latest amendments to the EUDR back in December 2025. As anticipated, the Commission does not propose legislative...
Commissioner Roswall publicly announced in the course of a debate with Members of the European Parliament on 27 April that the Commission will not issue its REACH revision proposal. The revision, which had been announced in the 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability had since been postponed several times. The Commission issued a first version of...
April 2026 | Blog
The European Parliament’s ENVI Committee adopted its report in the Chemicals Omnibus file on 15 April. The Chemicals Omnibus simplification proposal was published by the Commission on 8 July 2025. Discussions on the text are heated with the attention centered around the proposed amendments to the Cosmetics Regulation (Regulation (EU) 1223/2009 on cosmetic products). The...
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 for PFAS. On 2 March 2026, the European Chemicals Agency’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) adopted its final opinion, followed shortly after by the adoption...
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March 2026 | Europe
February 2026 | Europe
The last attempt of the European Commission to simplify the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) comes closer to becoming a reality today, although not quite as was initially planned. The European Parliament adopted today its position on the proposal, endorsing a broad 12 month delay of the EUDR (i.e. 30 December 2026) – as opposed to...
November 2025 | Blog
The Council takes position on the ban of single-use plastics in tobacco products in its Draft positions for the 11th Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The COP11 will take place from 17 to 22 November 2025. The Council’s document is issued in response to a...
October 2025 | Blog
The European Parliament has rejected the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) mandate to enter trilogue negotiations on the Omnibus I Simplification Package, which seeks to revise the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The vote concluded with 309 in favour, 318 against, and 34 abstentions, revealing a rare division...
The Commission presented in a letter of 1 October its plan to de-prioritize the adoption of a series of secondary legislations, destined to implement or complement legislative acts adopted in the domain of financial services. These include acts of application of Directive (EU) 2022/2464 on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD). While the Commission was empowered to...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has launched a Call for Evidence to support the preparation of a study report under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40). The study, as mandated in Article 5(2) PPWR, aims to map substances of concern (SoC) that are present in packaging and packaging components that negatively...
September 2025 | Blog
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