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Programme

  1. Registration and refreshments

  2. Welcome and introduction

    by the moderator

  3. Session 1: Overviews on regulatory developments

  4. The European Commission updates on CSS

  5. Echa update – preparing for implementation of new legislative requirements

    • What might change 
    • Opportunities and challenges ahead  
    • How to use our experience to best effect 

  6. The essential use concept – criteria to phase out non-essential uses of the most harmful chemicals

    • Reminder on the proposed scope of the essential use concept 
    • Proposed high level criteria for the essential use concept and further guidance on those 
    • Possible options to introduce the essential use concept in REACH and other EU legislation 
    • Expected main impacts of introducing the essential use concept in REACH 

  7. Can the REACH revision satisfy all stakeholders? The chemical industry perspective

    • Progress achieved, key expectations from industry and remaining uncertainties 
    • Concerns, especially regarding the essential use concept, the generic approach to risk management, grouping and new obligations, such as polymer registration 
    • Areas deemed to be controversial between stakeholders

  8. Refreshments

  9. The CSS, no piece of cake for SMEs

    • Why does the CSS matter for SMEs? 
    • What are the challenges? 
    • What are the opportunities?  

     

  10. Q&A and panel discussion, including different stakeholders’ perspectives on the essential use concept

    Additional panelist:

  11. Lunch

  12. Chemical Watch demo

  13. Session 2: Developing concepts for application under REACH

  14. The future of polymer registration

    • Notification of polymers: purpose and information required
    • Registration of polymers requiring registration: purpose and process
    • Amendments to REACH revision 2023 on polymers

  15. Mixture assessment and role of the mixtures assessment factor (MAF)

    • The mixtures problem 
    • Addressing the problem: the mixtures assessment factor (MAF) 
    • Possible implementation of the MAF in REACH 

  16. Q&A

  17. Session 3: Restriction roadmap – one year on

  18. Overall strategy for restrictions on flame retardants

    • Motivation: avoiding regrettable substitution and increasing predictability 
    • Looking back and status quo: flame retardants under REACH and the Stockholm Convention 
    • Content: substance groups potentially in scope, priorities, challenges 

  19. Refreshments

  20. Update on new general PFAS restriction proposal

    • Short introduction on the restriction process so far 
    • Overview of the concerns over PFAS and contents of the proposal 
    • Next steps in the proposal, with emphasis on the consultation phase that runs until 25 September 

  21. Update on bisphenols restriction proposal

    • Setting the scene: bisphenols regulation under REACH and CLP 
    • Considerations on the restriction proposal 
    • Status of the process and way forward 

  22. Restriction proposal for microplastics (intentional use) and consequences

  23. Q&A and panel discussion

  24. End of day one/drinks reception