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Postponement of the amendment to the criterion 17 Environmentally hazardous

The implementation of the change in criterion 17 Environmentally hazardous that was announced in 2019-07-01 and which would come into force on 2020-01-01, has now been postponed. BASTA awaits the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorates review in 2020 of risk priority reduction substances, which include environmentally hazardous. Depending on the results of this review, the previously announced change may be adjusted. Therefore, the current criteria for criterion 17 continue to apply. – New criteria for endocrine disruptors – The implementation of the change in criterion 5 hormone disrupting substances that was announced on 2018-12-17 now comes into force. However, a transition period will be applied until 2020-07-01, in order to allow adaptation to the changed criterion.

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BASTA Newsletter December 2019!

2020-01-07

Warm winter greetings from the BASTA-office 2019 was a busy year for BASTA with a long-awaited collaboration with Finfo and eBVD, a new Excel import and all the hard work getting the new logbook tool ready. We can now proudly present a brand new logbook that is both efficient,...

ECHA: Lack of chemical information hinders a circular economy

2019-11-25

In an article published 2019-11-22, Aktuell Hållbarhet writes that “companies need to become better at reporting particularly dangerous substances, known as SVHC, to their customers. This is what the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says after they in a Project examined the...

Postponement of the amendment to criterion 17, environmentally hazardous H412

2019-11-18

The implementation of the change in criterion 17, Environmentally Hazardous, that was announced 2019-07-01 and which would come into force on 2020-01-01, has been postponed.  BASTA awaits the review by Swedish Chemicals Agency  in 2020 of the risk reduction properties and definitions,...


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