This report addresses identification of nanomaterials according to the European Commission's Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial (2011/696/EU) by measurements and discusses options and points to consider when assessing whether a particulate material is a nanomaterial or not. The...

This Methodological Guidance clarifies some aspects of the voluntary application of the 'safe and sustainable by design' (SSbD) framework for chemicals and materials. It combines the disciplines of "Risk Assessment" (RA) and "Sustainability Assessment" (SA), which have different methodologies,...

The European Commission's Drone Strategy 2.0 aims to create the right environment for a vibrant and competitive European drone economy. This report provides a review of recent trends, challenges, and achievements of European research and innovation projects. It identifies relevant projects that...

Bees are important pollinators. They are essential for agricultural production and have major influence on the biodiversity of plants. Beeswax is after honey the second most important commercial bee product with a global market size of more than half a billion Euros. Beeswax is secreted in small...

The Nanobiosciences Unit of the Joint Research Centre's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection and Eurocolour, the association of European pigments, dyes and fillers industry, have carried out a program of work to evaluate a number of instrumental methods of measuring particle size...

This Addendum to report EUR 19572 EN describes the re-assessment of the stability if IRMM-440 and the characterisation of the thermal conductivity at lower temperature in the light of new data. The available data show that, as long as the boards are not physically damaged, IRMM-440 is stable for...

The overall goal of the NanoDefine project was to support the implementation of the EC Recommendation for a Definition of Nanomaterial (2011/696/EU) (EC NM Definition). The project has developed an integrated approach, which allows identifying any material as falling within or outside the EC NM...

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides scientific support to European Union policy including nanotechnology. Within this context, the JRC launched, in February 2011, a repository for Representative Test Materials (RTMs), based on preparatory work started in 2008. It...

In 2011 the JRC launched a Repository for Representative Test Materials that supports both EU and international research projects, and especially the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials' (WPMN) exploratory testing programme "Testing a Representative set of Manufactured...