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• New committee starts working for safe biocidal products

  A new scientific committee in ECHA has been established to contribute to the availability of safe biocidal products in the European markets. The Biocidal Products Committee will have an important role in the approval of active substances and the authorisation of biocidal products under the Biocidal more

• Appeal for harmonized scientific criteria for identification and assessment of endocrine disruptors

  Endocrine active substances denote substances that can influence the hormonal system of organisms. If this interaction leads to adverse effects, for example health impairments, such substances are called endocrine disruptors. In the European Union, specific regulations have now been passed on endocr more

• Substance evaluation under REACH: The annual update of the CoRAP published

  The Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for 2013-2015 covers 115 substances that are suspected of posing risk to human health or the environment. The updated CoRAP list has been prepared in close cooperation with the Member States, taking into account the agreed risk-based criteria for the selecti more

Publications European Commission

• [News of the Week] Around the World

  In science news around the world this week, the largest HIV vaccine study in the world came to a premature halt, the European Commission is banning three widely used pesticides that are potentially harmful to bees, a defamation bill that will help protect free speech passed in England and Wales, and more

• Graphene in the heart of Europe

  Nature Nanotechnology 8, 221 (2013). doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.64 Graphene has been chosen as one of the European Commission's billion-euro flagship projects and has cemented its central position in European research. more

• Materials, Vol. 6, Pages 1090-1117: Towards a Consensus View on Understanding Nanomaterials Hazards and Managing Exposure: Knowledge Gaps and Recommendations

  The aim of this article is to present an overview of salient issues of exposure, characterisation and hazard assessment of nanomaterials as they emerged from the consensus-building of experts undertaken within the four year European Commission coordination project NanoImpactNet. The approach adopte more

Market studies European Commission

• Poland Agribusiness Report Q3 2012

  BMI View: We maintain our forecast for Poland's grain production to fall in 2012/13, with the effect of winter-kill cancelling the effect of higher plantings. The recent decision by the European Commission to lift a ban on chicken meat imported from Thailand could decrease the share of Ukrainian or more

• Iran Petrochemicals Report Q2 2012

  The Iranian government’s ambitious plans for a 37mn tpa increase in petrochemicals capacity in 2010- 2015 look set to be dashed by a combination of slower domestic growth and a crippling international sanctions regime, according to BMI’s latest Iran petrochemicals report. Iran is finding it increas more

• European Petrochemicals Industry - Carbon Credit Auctioning to Decrease the Profitability

  Introduction The proposed draft amendment of the phase-3 European Union (EU) Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) has called for radical changes in the method of carbon credits distribution in the region. The draft amendment which was submitted by the European Commission in March 2011 has suggested the in more

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