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October 2026 | Europe
Sustainability in Business
EUROPEAN UNION EU – Teflon identified among critical chemicals list. The Commission-led Critical Chemicals Alliance (‘CCA’) has identified PTFE (‘Teflon’) in a list of almost 50 critical chemicals. The group, which is composed of industry, Member State and NGO representatives, was tasked in spring 2026 with establishing a list of priority substances in the context...
October 2026 | Blog
EUROPEAN UNION EU – PFAS content limits in food contact packaging now applicable. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (‘PPWR’) became appliable on 12 August 2026, and with it, the limits on the presence of PFAS in food contact packaging. Further indications on the implications of the new requirement were issued within the Commission’s August...
September 2026 | Blog
EUROPEAN UNION EU – EFSA lowers acceptable daily intake of trifluoroacetic acid (‘TFA’). The European Food Safety Agency (‘EFSA’) has lowered the acceptable daily intake of down to 0.014 milligrams per kilogram of bodyweight per day (compared to 0.05 mg previously). The value refers to the amount of a substance in food or drinking water...
August 2026 | Blog
July 2026 | Europe
European Union Member States United Kingdom
July 2026 | Blog
EUROPEAN UNION EU Generic PFAS restriction proposal: end of the public consultation on the SEAC Opinion. The Draft Opinion of the Socio-Economic Analysis Committee (SEAC) was submitted for a 60-day public consultation which ended on 25 May. The first submissions are available in a consolidated document on the restriction’s page of ECHA’s website. The SEAC...
June 2026 | Blog
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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