EU ROUND UP – BRUSSELS DRAFTS CHANGES TO VOC DEFINITION FOR EU PAINT ECO-LABEL
March 9th, 2015
THE EUROPEAN Commission has drafted revisions to the definition of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) used within the guidelines for awarding the EU ecolabel for paints and varnishes. In a new text, it has defined VOCs as “any organic compounds having an initial boiling point less than or equal to 250C measured at a standard pressure of 101.3kPa…and which, in a capillary column, are eluting up to and including n-Tetradecane (C14H30)”.And as for SVOCs, these are any organic compound having a boiling point greater than 250C and less ...
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