Chemical Management & EU Chemicals Legislation & Products Safety – REACH Conference 2025
Chemical Management & EU Chemicals Legislation & Products Safety – REACH Conference 2025 will be held in Katowice-Chorzow, Poland on September 22-23, 2025
The REACH Conference 2025 topics for discussion:
- Chemicals / products / articles vs Clean Industrial Deal (what remained from the EU’s chemicals strategy for sustainability towards a toxic-free environment under Green Deal?);
Safety of consumer products;
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- On December 13, 2024, the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) came into effect. The GPSR applies to all non-food products, whether new, used, repaired, or refurbished, except for products regulated by other specific directives. It covers all entities placing products on the EU market, including manufacturers, importers, and distributors.
- The new general safety requirement contains a general obligation for businesses to only place “safe products” on the market.
- The Regulation introduces several obligations, including:
- Transparency regarding product origin
- Compliance with safety requirements
- Removal of unsafe products from the market
- Distance selling, ensuring that products sold online or through other remote channels also meet safety standards.
- New Legislation / E‑commerce 2025
REACH Revision = REACH 2.0:
- REACH regulation revision is now stated in the Commission work programme 2025
https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/f80922dd-932d-4c4a-a18c-d800837fbb23_en - Part of the Clean Industrial Deal will also be to make key industries in Europe more circular and sustainable, while facilitating administration and reducing compliance costs to boost competitiveness. A chemicals industry package will boost the competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry and provide a simpler regime for the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals and clarity on ‘forever chemicals’. The targeted revision of the EU’s rules on chemicals (REACH) will contribute to simplifying rules for the chemicals industry without compromising on safety and environmental protection.
Implementation of CLP:
- Changes to the CLP Regulation 2024-2027 and new obligations
- Requirements for Refill Stations
- New Hazard Classes in the Updated CLP Regulation
- Classification Approach for Complex Substances
- General Obligations of Distributors
- Mandatory Hazard Information in Advertisements
- Distance Sales Requirements Under the CLP Regulation
- Substitution – where we are now?;
- Interface between chemical and product legislation: ROHS, detergents, cosmetic products… and other product legislation;
- Science to Policy (Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals);
Detergents Regulation Revision:
- The proposed regulation intends to:
- Simplify market rules by abolishing several requirements that have become unnecessary or redundant (such as the obligation to provide an ingredient data sheet for hazardous detergents). Labels would also be simplified.
- Introduce voluntary digital labelling: the proposal differentiates between pre-packaged products and products sold in a refill format. For pre-packaged products, economic operators may choose to move certain mandatory labelling information to a digital label, in combination with a physical one. And for products sold in a refill format, there is a possibility to provide all labelling information, except for dosage instructions for consumer laundry detergents, only digitally. The introduction of digital labelling would reduce burden and costs for the industry and would provide further ease of use and awareness for consumers and professional users.
- Facilitate the sales of innovative safe products, such as new innovative cleaning products based on micro-organisms.
- Increase sustainability and safety through clear rules for refilled detergents
Compliance challenges and enforcement
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- Where we are in EU chemicals legislation compliance (online & offline)?
- EC will launch a new Coordinated Activity on the Safety of Products (CASP);
- New Regulatory Agenda – Customs Reform & Coordinated Controls and Enhanced Enforcement – ensuring that goods comply with EU requirements and providing data to the customs authorities at the moment of the sale (prior to the arrival).
- Customs Priority Control Area (PCA): The EC proposes to establish a PCA, which it can do under its existing powers established by the UCC’s implementing provisions, for e-commerce imports shipped directly to consumers, with targeted controls on high-risk products.
Ukraine REACH
- On July 23, 2024, the Government of Ukraine approved the technical regulation “Safety of Chemical Products”, known as “Ukraine REACH” (UA REACH). This is an important step that brings Ukraine’s chemicals management system closer to European standards and reflects the requirements of the EU’s REACH regulation. Ukraine’s REACH entered into force on 26 January 2025. (more in Ekotox webpages: https://ekotox.eu/reach-in-ukarine/)
Details of the conference:
The official language of the REACH Conferenec 2025 is English. Limited translation support is under consideration/preparation.
The REACH Conference 2025 will be hybrid (in person and online).
Participation in the conference is possible also for a selected day.
The prices do not include VAT. Coffee and lunch breaks are included in the ticket price.
Access to the REACH Conference 2025 in person or online will be possible only after participation acceptance by the REACH Conference 2025 Secretariat and paid participation fee.
We provide access to conference materials, the opportunity to actively participate in the meeting and ask questions, direct contact with industry representatives and experts, as well as a chance to establish new business relationships.
Do you want to speak at the conference?
Interested in becoming a partner of the REACH Conference 2025?
Do you have questions about the conference?
Contact us!
REACH Conference Secretariat:
EKOTOX CENTERS
Centrum Ekotoksykologiczne Sp. z o.o.
Ul. Armii Krajowej 33, 41-506 Chorzów, Polska
E-mail: training@ekotox.eu
Tel.: +48 32 202 90 34
Main partner – Downstream Users of Chemicals Co-ordination Group (DUCC)
DUCC is a platform of 11 European associations which represent “downstream” industries ranging from cosmetics and detergents to aerosols, paints, inks, toners, pressroom chemicals, adhesives and sealants, construction chemicals, fragrances, disinfectants, lubricants and chemical distributors industries.
DUCC brings together the following associations:
- International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products (A.I.S.E)
- Technical Association of the European Lubricants Industry (ATIEL)
- European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink, and Artist’s Colours Industry (CEPE)
- Cosmetics Europe
- European Crop Protection Association – CropLife Europe
- European Federation for Construction Chemicals (EFCC)
- European Aerosol Federation (FEA)
- European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC)
- Association of the European Adhesive & Sealant Industry (FEICA)
- Imaging and Printing Association (I&P Europe)
- International Fragrance Association (IFRA)
More information about DUCC and its members you can find here.
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