EU ROUND UP – EU UPGRADES BIOCIDES REGULATION ONCE AGAIN
June 8th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has again updated the European Union’s (EU) rules on biocidal products, trying to smooth the implementation of the new EU biocidal products regulation. Only one month after announcing a swath of clarifications, ECHA has now confirmed that a new European Commission regulation has come into force (on June 4) on the renewal of biocide authorisations granted through “mutual recognition”. That covers products first authorised by an EU member state, rather than a central EU authorisation, where another EU government approves a ...
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