Industrial Chemical

ECHA Champions Joint Registration with a No to Individual Submission

On 6 January, the European Commission adopted a new implementing regulation to clarify the “fair, transparent and non-discriminatory” principles for data sharing under EU REACH, which came into force ...

2016-02-03

Industrial Chemical

Registration is Not the End! REACH24H Elaborates on Compliance Strategies for REACH Compliance

The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) is expected to release the Annual Evaluation Report 2015 in the forthcoming February. In 2015, ECHA has adopted new strategies for dossier compliance check, with ...

2016-01-26

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights –Japan Chemical Regulations

The Japan Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL) has imposed strict pre-marketing evaluation of chemical substances to prevent environmental pollution and control chemical risks to human health, ...

2016-01-14

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights – Taiwan Chemical Regulations

The year 2015 witnessed new changes to the chemical substance management in Taiwan, with amendments made to the Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act (TCSCA) and the Occupational Safety and Health ...

2016-01-14

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights – South Korea Chemical Regulations

The Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals of Korea (a.k.a. “K-REACH”) is regarded as the first REACH-style chemical regulation adopted in an Asian country, which manages new chemical ...

2016-01-14

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights – China Chemical Regulations

The year of 2015 is by no means an uneventful year for China’s chemical and environmental management. Work safety accidents occurred frequently, with the catastrophic Tianjin Blasts of 12 August ...

2016-01-13

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights – Global GHS

After the implementation of the UN GHS in 2003, many countries and regions worldwide followed suit. The year of 2015 witnessed a remarkable boom of GHS implementation worldwide. In the U.S., the ...

2016-01-13

Industrial Chemical

2015 Global Regulatory Highlights – EU REACH

With the deepening of market globalization, trade barrier inevitably becomes a common phenomenon. In the chemical industry, the EU REACH regulation has long been perceived by many as a kind of ...

2016-01-13

Industrial Chemical

Are You Ready for the 2016 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) under U.S. TSCA?

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a prominent law in U.S. that aims to prevent unreasonable risks of injury to human health or the ...

2015-12-29

Industrial Chemical

Analysis of the Final Report on the Third REACH-EN-FORCE Project: Advice on REACH Supply Chain Compliance

Recently, ECHA published the final report of the third REACH-EN-FORCE (REF) Project. REF3 covered 28 countries, with 1,169 companies and 5,746 substances inspected during 2013-2014. Detailed ...

2015-12-22