EU ROUND UP – EU TITANIUM DIOXIDE PAINT LABELLING RULE CHALLENGED AT EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
August 2nd, 2020
A LEGAL challenge has been made at the European Court or Justice (ECJ) to a new European Union (EU) regulation that orders sellers of paints and coatings containing titanium dioxide (TO2) – an important whitener - to include health warning messages on packages.
Germany’s CWS Powder Coatings GmbH has claimed that when imposing a regulation in 2019, the EU executive, the European Commission breached EU chemical legislation. Under the rule, which classified TO2 as carcinogenic, liquid mixtures containing 1% or more TO2 with aerodynamic diameter equal to or ...
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