European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Pinch of salt

SDS Abuse of Safety Data Sheets for cargo bookings is uncomfortably frequent. A recent TT Club claim relating to a fire onboard a containership highlighted the potential for shippers to hide the real hazards using false or out-of-date SDSs

Woman looking through book of safety data sheets

To protect and to serve

ASSOCIATION Last month’s issue included a review of Fecc’s 2013 Business Plan, outlining the tasks faced by its numerous working committees. Here director general Uta Jensen-Korte explains what that means in practice for the Association and its members – and the chemical industry at large

Dr Uta Jensen-Korte

No revision - for now

REACH The European Commission has released its Review of REACH report, stating that it does not intend to revise the Regulation at present, although it admits that there a number of areas that require improvement. Industry groups are happy with the outcome

Janez Potočnik

Gathering storm

GHS It may be true that GHS is of greater import to manufacturers and shippers of chemicals than it is to logistics service providers, but everyone in the supply chain should be aware of the direction of discussions by the GHS experts as some issues may well impact the transport regulations

Explosion aftermath

ECHA releases registrant names

ECHA has published the company names and registration numbers from REACH registration dossiers.

PIC gets a re-write

A recast of the EU Regulation on the export and import of hazardous chemicals - the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation - has been published. It will apply from 2014.

Keep it clean

CHEMICAL TANKERS If the global chemical supply chain were not already sufficiently complex, operators of chemical tankers carry a broad range of non-chemical cargoes. This means that they have to be aware of an array of legislation, including provisions relating to hygiene in the food chain

Tanker Bit Viking at sea

Sticking to their guns

GHS The decisions taken by the GHS experts can often affect the transport regulations and those in the transport sector are keeping a close eye on its deliberations on corrosivity criteria. At their second meeting of 2011, the GHS experts gave little ground on this potentially awkward requirement

Road Signs in Europe

Can I have an ‘E’ please, Bob?

REACH/CLP The ‘E’ in REACH stands for ‘Evaluation’ but as implementation proceeds there is also a need for ‘Enforcement’. A conference held by the European Commission last month aimed to give industry an idea of where this is all going

ECHA Sign

ECHA opens C&L Inventory

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has launched the Public Classification & Labelling (C&L) Inventory

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