EU ROUND UP – NEW EU BIOCIDE REGULATION REFORMS COME INTO FORCE
May 9th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced that new reforms to the European Union’s (EU) new biocidal products regulation have come into force, clarifying difficulties discovered in the original legislation.This new amending regulation (334/2014) includes a new definition of biocidal product families, which sub-categorises products within the same grouping according to their levels of risk and efficacy. It also confirms that new biocide-treated articles can be sold in the EU if an application for approval of an active substance or product type used is ...
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