Programme
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Registration
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Welcome
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Keynote Keynote: Global regulatory trends
- Session 1: Developments from Europe
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Chair:
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The European Commission / ECHA Compliance Check Action Plan 2019
- REACH registration dossiers and complying with legal requirements; key actions in the REACH Evaluation Joint Action Plan.
- ECHA’s screening of registration dossiers and compliance checks for at least 30% of substances.
- The Commission’s proposed amendment to REACH to increase the minimum required number of compliance checks from the present 5% to 20% in each tonnage band, and the legal target to support this objective.
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The ECHA database of articles containing Candidate List substances under the Waste Framework Directive
- Concept and legal duties
- Information requirements and technical implementation
- Project status
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Q&A
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Refreshments
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REACH: Challenging decisions on substance evaluation
- Dossier compliance vs Substance evaluation
- Legal criteria to challenge decisions on Substance evaluation requesting new studies (EOGRTS etc.)
- Review of Board of Appeal decisions
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The Future of REACH Authorisation and Restrictions
- Impact of recent positions by the Court of Justice, the Parliament and the Council on Authorisation
- Review of recent restriction proposals: Scope, demonstration of unacceptable risk, grouping
- Navigating the challenging waters of REACH risk management measure
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Article 45 CLP: Poison centres
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Q&A
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Lunch
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EU RoHS panel discussion and Q&A
Doreen Fedrigo
Head of Circular Economy Policy, European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS), Belgium - Session 2: Developments from North America
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Chair:
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The regulatory drivers for ingredient transparency in the US
- Learn about the major laws governing ingredient communication and labeling for household products in California, New York and a potential federal legislative solution.
- The deadlines and nomenclature requirements for California and New York.
- How industry is working with U.S. retailers to align chemical safety policies and prevent conflicting ingredient communication requirements.
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Refreshments
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TSCA: Overview and new chemicals update
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The NGO response to United States EPA's implementation of the new TSCA
- Since the 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) NGOs have lodged cases in the U.S. courts challenging nearly every aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) implementation of the new law.
- The NGOs have had some successes and some losses in the courts.
- This has caused EPA to change its procedures on some issues, to hold firm in others; yet a number of significant judgments are yet to be handed down.
- The impact of NGO engagement parallels to some degree the involvement and impact of NGOs on REACH implementation.
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Understanding the NGO response in the face of industry’s response
- TSCA reform delicately balanced competing stakeholder interests. That balance has been shattered by the Trump administration’s implementation of the reformed law.
- Chemical industry officials now hold key positions at EPA with few or no ethics limitations, and industry and law firms representing it have seized the political opening to skew implementation far in its direction.
- Litigation has been a necessary response to EPA’s numerous violations of the law.
- In its risk evaluations, EPA is relying on industry study summaries available through ECHA, without access to full studies. These summaries can be – and have been – altered by registrants without notice.
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Industry perspective on working with US TSCA
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Q&A
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California Proposition 65 update
- Enforcement trends after the new warning regulations
- Newly listed chemicals of potential interest (PFOA and Soluble Nickel)
- Using safe use determinations to assist assessing compliance
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Updates on Chemicals Management in Canada
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Mary Ellen Perkin
Manager - Consumer and Cleaning Products, Industrial Sectors, Chemicals and Waste Directorate, Environment and Climate Change Canada -
Q&A
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Close of day one / Cocktail reception
