A push for ESG accountability in the EU and UK has been driven in part by investor and consumer demand and pressure on regulators to act swiftly...

The European Commission has issued Statements of Objections to construction chemicals manufacturers in France, Germany and Spain, along with three national trade associations, over suspected price coordination. The preliminary assessment suggests manufacturers coordinated future price increases for chemical additives and admixtures between 2021 and 2022 in response to rising raw material costs following the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine.

On the 25 April 2022, the European Commission published a "Restrictions Roadmap" as part of the EU's Chemicals Strategy.

On 5 July 2023, the General Court rendered its judgment in case T-639/20 TIB Chemicals AG. The action was dismissed but the judgment contains highly relevant rulings for economic actors...

On 15 February 2012, the EU’s Official Journal published Commission Regulation 125/2012, which adds eight substances to the REACH chemical Regulation's Annex XIV "authorisation" list. The addition of these eight substances brings the number of substances listed in Annex XIV to 22.

The European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC) is expected to agree on its draft opinion on restricting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the first half of March 2026.

During its 59th meeting held on 18-20 March 2015, the EU competent authorities (CA) for biocides have adopted the long awaited guidance document on the management of in situ generated active substances...

Towards end-2011, the EU's Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement published a Facts Report on the Coordinated Forum REACH Enforcement Project.

Regulation 1907/2006 concerning the REACH applies to every manufacturer or importer into the EU of chemical substances on their own or in a mixture.

EU chemicals law, once seen merely as a risk management framework, is now increasingly a lever for strategic autonomy, supply security, and the energy transition.

On July 27, 2004, the European Parliament Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI COM) will hold its first meeting under the sixth Parliamentary Term.

On 22 May 2008, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") delivered its judgment in case C-361/06, Feinchemie Schwebda and Bayer CropScience v College voor detoelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen.

Pre-registration of substances under REACH started on 1 June 2008 and ends on 1 December 2008. Substances on their own, in preparations or in articles which are not pre-registered during that period cannot be manufactured in the EU.

In what could become one of the most far-reaching chemical bans in EU history, five European States — Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany — have jointly proposed restricting more than 10,000 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS") under the Regulation 1907/2006 ("REACH").

The European Parliament approved the co-legislators' political agreement over new toy safety rules and, on 25 November 2025, adopted the Toy Safety Regulation ('TSR').

Under the EU's REACH Regulation 1907/2006, substances must be registered with the European Chemicals Agency before being imported.

Today, the European Commission proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law reviewing the 2040 climate targets that first enshrined climate neutrality by 2050...

On 29 August 2011, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published proposals to identify twenty chemicals as "Substances of Very High Concern" (SVHCs).

On 25 September 2023, one year after the publication of the proposal, the European Commission adopted the restriction of intentionally added microplastics under the European Union Registration...

REACH defines "articles" as "an object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design which determines its function to a greater degree than its chemical composition".