If you’re based in Great Britain and manufacture, import, sell or distribute chemical substances or mixtures you’ll need to follow the UK REACH regulation and comply with a number of new obligations.

On the 1st January 2021, the EU cosmetic product regulation EC No.1223/2009 will no longer apply to companies placing cosmetic products on the UK market.  A new UK cosmetics regulation will come into force.  

The Brexit Transition Period is set to end on the 31st December 2020. As things stand, starting 1st January 2021, the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation will cease to apply in Great Britain (GB); in its place, a GB version is anticipated to come into force (GB-CLP).

The Biocide Product Committee (BPC) has recommended the approval ADBAC/BKC and DDAC for use in two disinfectant product types:

• Type 3 (animal hygiene products such as disinfectants and oral or corporal hygiene products ) and 

• Type 4 (equipment, containers and surfaces needed in the production, transport, storage or consumption of food or feed for people and animals). 

While the new legislation will be similar to the EU BPR, there are some actions you need to take quickly to ensure the continuity of your supply chain of biocides in the UK.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for disinfectants, so a number of countries fast-tracked the supply chain of products by relying on special provisions in biocidal regulations

The requirement for companies to update their REACH registration dossiers ‘without undue delay’ is in most cases specified by the European Commission (EC) as 3 months. In more complex cases, the deadline for updates is up to 1 year. The clarification was made on Monday 12 October 2020, and it enters into force 60 days after the announcement. Yordas’ experts can help you monitor regulatory changes and keep compliant.

Co-designed between Lancaster University and Yordas Group, the NextGenChem programme will work with 300 SMEs to boost growth in chemical-using industries.

Hand and surface disinfectants defined as biocidal products in Product Type (PT) 1 and 2 fall under the EU biocidal products Regulation (BPR). Companies placing a biocidal product on the market in the EU must source their active substance or biocidal product from suppliers listed on Article 95 of the BPR, limiting the access to the market only to companies only included on this list.

As the compliance date for Poison Centre Notifications is only four months away, we decided to answer your most pressing questions about the new requirements

The NanoExplore project is currently recruiting companies based in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany that manufacture or handle nanocomposites, or are concerned with ultrafine dust emissions to take part in a research study. The main goal of NanoExplore is to reduce the adverse effects derived from the exposure to engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) by setting up a harmonized health surveillance system and promoting new EU policies for the safe use of ENMs.

The SbD4Nano project explores the Safe-by-Design concept which is a means to dampen human health and environmental risks, applying preventive safety measures during the design stage of a facility, process, material or product.