Regulatory Summit Europe Part 1: European Updates

• What we know on different rates of non-compliance in REACH and CLP
• Planned EU wide enforcement activities covered by the forum
• What is expected from the REACH revision

Erwin Annys

Head of Unit Support and Enforcement, ECHA, Finland

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• Enforcement in the chemical strategy for sustainability (CSS) 
• REACH review: Commission proposals for enforcement  
• The REACH review’s potential impact on the ECHA Forum’s work 

Katja vom Hofe

Vice Chair, The Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement

• Challenges observed
• Chromium (VI) authorisations covering a broad group of users
• Enforcer‘s findings and recommendations
• Project follow-up

Eugen Anwander

Senior Scientific Officer, Institute for Environment and Food Safety, Vorarlberg State Service, Austria & Chair of Echa BPR Enforcement Forum, Finland

• EU approach to customs reform in the REACH revision
• Context, challenges and state of play

Veronika Jezso

Policy Officer, European Commission, DG GROW

• Why does the topic of customs matter to consumers?;
• How did BEUC get involved in this topic?;
• Our input to the reform of customs policy: research on non-compliant products; and 
• Our assessment of the European Commission’s proposal, and state of play 

Laurens Rutten

Senior Communications & Policy Officer, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• Overview of the project on recovered substances (objectives, methodology)
• Results of the project
• Conclusions and recommendations

Oldřich Jarolím

Inspector, Czech Environmental Inspectorate

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• The European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) 
• How chemicals legislation is applied to waste-based materials
• How to deal with more challenging legal provisions

Topi Turunen

Senior Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute

• Eco innovation projects aiming to prolong the lifetime of used process aids 
• Interphase between REACH in the product and waste legislation 
• CO2 reduction resource saving, supply chain cooperation for the safe further use of cleaned process aids 

Marianne Lyngsaae

Quality System Manager, Brenntag Nordic, Denmark

• why we need grouping?;
• criteria for appropriate grouping; and
• potential and limitations of grouping

Jérémy Pinte

Policy Officer, European Commission - DG Grow

• use of grouping to speed up action on chemicals of concern;
• what are the different follow-up steps?; and
• where and when can stakeholders contribute?

Erwin Annys

Head of Unit Support and Enforcement, ECHA, Finland

• human biomonitoring shows that restriction of individual substances often does not deliver protection, but leads to a shift in pollution;
• the EU decided to use grouping of chemicals as a tool to overcome the problems; and
• grouping will help accelerate innovation towards safer chemistry

Stefan Scheuer

Chief EU Policy Advocate, CHEM Trust

• Grouping and read-across applied for registration purposes or classification and labelling 
• Alternative to testing individual chemicals and increasing knowledge of hazard properties 
• Needs to be underpinned by robust and documented rationale 
• Practical hurdles and implications
• Guidance and frameworks  

Violaine Verougstraete

Chemicals Management Director, Eurometaux, Belgium

• The new restriction in force from August 2023 onwards
• National guidance at the borderline REACH and workplace safety rules
• Joint enforcement campaign by REACH inspectors and occupational safety and health inspectors

Eugen Anwander

Senior Scientific Officer, Institute for Environment and Food Safety, Vorarlberg State Service, Austria & Chair of Echa BPR Enforcement Forum, Finland

Join us for relaxed networking, drinks and appetisers with our speakers and attendees.