EU MEMBER STATES DRAG FEET OVER MANDATED BIOCIDAL PRODUCTS REVIEWS
October 2nd, 2021
The European Commission has warned that European Union (EU) member states are making “alarmingly slow progress” in reviewing the safety of active biocidal substances on sale before May 2000 – covering most products. A review of the operation of the 2012 EU biocidal product regulation (BPR) of 2012 concluded that while the system was “fully operational”, there has been a “substantial delay in active substance approval,” whose completion deadline has already been extended from 2014 to 2024. This may be breached. By 2019, only 35% of scheduled biocidal ...
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