EU BIOCIDE REGULATION HAS SUPPORT – BUT THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT COST AND RED TAPE
May 9th, 2014
SOME eight months after the European Union's (EU) new system for regulating the use of biocides became operational, the implications of the changes are sinking in. Biocides, widely used by paint and coatings manufacturers as preservatives, and in some cases to impart special qualities such as mould resistance, are far more toxic than most chemicals and require special approval rules. Since September 1 (2013), they have been governed by EU regulation (EU) No 528/2012 rather than by an older EU directive, giving the member states less licence than before to ...
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