23 June 2020
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REACH: Ban on PFOA from 4 July 2020
From 4 July 2020, PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), its salts and other compounds related to PFOA are banned under Annex XVII, entry 68 of REACH. The prohibition applies: manufacture, use and placing on the market, substances, preparations or articles and a concentration ≥ 25 ppb PFOA including its salts or 1,000 ppb of one or a combination of PFOA-related substances. Here you can find the current EU Commission Regulation (PDF).
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30 January 2020
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New online portal for conflict minerals
The EU Commission has launched the online portal "Due Diligence Ready!" This portal is intended to help companies comply with the requirements of the EU regulation on conflict minerals. The regulation comes into force on January 1, 2021 and concerns the trade in gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten (the so-called 3TG) from politically unstable regions. EU importers and large EU companies (with more than 500 employees) using these minerals will then be subject to a mandatory due diligence
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11 December 2019
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Upcoming changes in REACH and IMDS
Ralf Dües, IMDS and REACH expert, provided information at the last IMDS Users' Meeting on the SCIP database, which ECHA will activate from 2020 on the basis of the Waste Framework Directive. From 2021 onwards, all products containing SVHC that are manufactured in the EU or imported into the EU must be registered in this database. The presentation is available in PDF format in our IMDS Infoportal. In addition, Jonas Tilly of DXC Technology reported on the changes made to the IMDS next year
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05 July 2019
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No supply chain, no project success - Compliance with the help of IMDS and CDX
Compliance with rules and regulations should be part of corporate management. The supply chain is also becoming more and more important as it plays its part. As early as 2014, 56.6 percent of the companies surveyed in a KPMG survey stated that the requirements placed on them were increasing, while at the same time 41.7 percent increased the requirements placed on their business partners. This trend has continued in recent years. In addition to fines, non-compliance with rules can also cause
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