Following recent adoption of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Commission is required to identify, from a list of 32 priority substances (PS), the priority hazardous substances (PHS) that are of particular concern for the aquatic environment. Consideration of the socioeconomic...

As part of its Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT), the European Commission launched a fitness check on chemicals legislation (excluding REACH). This study supports the fitness check in evaluating the CLP Regulation ((EC) No 1272/2008) and its interface with other related...

This report is provided in the scope of the project “Advancing REACH”, funded by the research plan of the German Ministry of the Environment. The project aims to develop options to improve the (implementation of) the REACH regulation by analysing various REACH processes and related issues,...