Programme
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Registration
- Session 1: REACH & CLP enforcement - high level overviews
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Update from ECHA’s Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement
- Ongoing REF and pilot projects
- Findings from finalised projects
- Forthcoming projects
- Forum Work Programme 2019-2023
- Work on the Quality of SDSs
- Ongoing work/issues (tbd)
Sinead McMickan
Health and Safety Inspector, Health & Safety Authority Ireland & Vice Chair of ECHA Enforcement FORUM, Ireland -
Enforcement of EU Chemicals Regulations in the next 5 years: a Forum Secretariat’s perspective
- The Forum Multi Annual Work Programme 2019-2023
- Recommendations on enforcement from the second REACH review
- Implications for enforcement of the last wave of registration dossiers
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Enforcement of dossier evaluation decisions and SONCs
- The EU General Court ruling in Case T-283/15 (Esso Raffinage v ECHA)
- Consequences for dossier evaluation decision making and enforcement
- Role of ECHA and member states in enforcement of evaluation decisions
- Impact on companies receiving evaluation decisions and SONCs
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Is Europe’s market surveillance system working? Cases from the textiles sector
Working towards a level playing field with better market surveillance, Cases from the textiles sector
- How can Europe check 21 billion imported products?
- Easy targets vs catching free riders?
- Policy making
- How can we move towards better market surveillance
Mauro Scalia
Director, Sustainable Business, The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX) -
Q&A
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Refreshments
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The interpretation of “intermediate use” - an example of streamlining interpretation on intermediates to prevent the need for enforcement
- REACH obligations depend on interpretation of intermediate status and use
- Eurometaux’s program to clarify “intermediate status”
- Sectoral guidance
- Published examples and guidance
- Also provides enforcement authorities with best knowledge
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Q&A
- Session 2: REACH registration and authorisation obligations
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The Italian story of As2O3: substitution triggered by REACH authorization
- As2O3 uses and regulatory risk management route
- Intermediate use interpretation
- Joint efforts to find alternatives
- Enforcement authorities’ activities
- Replacement of As2O3: facts and impacts
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Austrian enforcement project on REACH authorisation and downstream users
- DU obligations
- After the sunset date
- A supplier has applied for authorisation
- A supplier holds an authorisation
- Identifying the downstream users affected by a substance on REACH Annex XIV
Eugen Anwander
Senior Scientific Officer, Institute for Environment and Food Safety, Vorarlberg State Service, Austria & Chair of Echa BPR Enforcement Forum, Finland -
Q&A
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Lunch
- Session 3: Internet Sales, SVHCs in articles, restrictions and CLP
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New developments of enforcement on internet sales of chemicals
- Enforcement of advertising and offering in the internet
- Controls of chemicals and biocides
Sibylle Wursthorn
Senior Expert (Referent) and Inspector in the Unit Chemical and Product Safety, Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy, Germany -
How Amazon is using data and technology to enable online sales of safe and compliant chemicals
- Starting from a garage in Seattle selling books, Amazon now offers consumers a large selection of products
- Growing selection requires ongoing updates to our safety and compliance processes
- Addressing new challenges by inventing new ways to enable safe selection
- Using data & technology to improve the customer experience & protect our customers
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Implementation and enforcement of the new Annex VIII to CLP
- Regulation (EU) 2017/542 - harmonisation of information requirements relating to emergency health response
- Scope
- Application deadlines
- Information requirements
- Tools
- Enforcement – appointed bodies and access to data
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Enforcement of CLP at national level in Norway
- Organisation of enforcement of CLP in Norway and the risk based approach to enforcement
- Current enforcement activities on CLP - including results from completed activities (including market surveillance projects in 2017 and 2018)
- Performance of REF-6 in Norway
- Procedures for follow up of CLP non-compliances
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Enforcement of substances in articles – restrictions and information duty
- Experiences of Sweden’s enforcement with chemicals in articles
- Some results from the last projects
- What articles, materials and substances we find and focus on
- Short description of Forum’s pilot project on Substances in articles (SIA) – notification (article 7.2)
- and information duty (article 33)
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Q&A
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Refreshments
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REACH ensures ‘no data, no market’, and that chemicals of concern are identified?
- No data, no market and REACH restrictions should mean that unregistered or restricted chemicals are not present in consumer articles – but how sure are we of this? Do we really know where to look – are some problem chemicals in articles being missed?
- Does the current combination of industry responsibility, and limited enforcement, properly protect all parts of society?
- What opportunities are there for grouping (e.g. see http://www.chemtrust.org/toxicsoup) to improve the quality of both registration dossiers and classification & labelling, to ensure that REACH enforces ‘no data, no market’, not ‘no data no problem’?
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Q&A
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Panel discussion:
- What are the priorities for enforcement in reducing hazardous chemicals in products - one of the biggest risks to health and safety in the EU and EEA?
- How should substances of very high concern in imported goods be dealt with?
- Do risk management measures, such as harmonised labelling, restrictions, evaluations, or other legislation (like sector and occupational health laws) offer better protection compared to REACH authorisation?
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End of day one
