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Air

Toxicological basic data for the derivation of EU-LCI values for 5 substances from building products

The subject of this project was the preparation of substance reports for the following substances: 2-phenylpropene (CAS No. 98-83-9), vinyl toluene (mixture of o-, m-, p- and isomers) (CAS No. 611-15- 4, 100-80-1, 622-97-9, 25013-15-4), n-heptane (CAS No. 142-82-5), hexylene glycol (CAS No. 107-41-5) and tripropylene glycol monomethyl ether (CAS No. 20324-33-8, 25498-49-1). For these substances, t...read more

Economy | Consumption

Blue Angel - 40 years. Good for me. Good for the environment.

In this anniversary booklet, we give you a glimpse behind the scenes: how everything began in the 1970s, when spray cans still contained CFC and the Club of Rome made the world aware of the “limits to growth“. What’s more, discover how we are shaping the environmental label to be future-proof and how we have our sights set on the next generation.read more

Chemicals

REACH Compliance: Data availability in REACH registrations Part 2: Evaluation of data waiving and adaptations for chemicals ≥ 1000 tpa

The standard information requirements necessary for the registration and their adaptation options for high tonnage substances are specified in the ⁠REACH⁠ Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. The report presents findings and results from the examination of 1814 dossiers of lead and individual registrants covering phase-in substances with a production volume of ≥ 1000 tpa. Within this projec...read more

Chemicals

Recommendations for registrants to improve data quality in registration dossiers for chemicals ≥ 1000 tpa

based on the project REACH Compliance

The standard information requirements necessary for the registration and their adaptation options for high tonnage substances are specified in the ⁠REACH⁠ Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. Based on the outcome of the REACH Compliance project, it is recommended that registrants scrutinize whether an update of their registration dossier is necessary to meet the information requirements. Th...read more

Chemicals

A blind spot in the assessment of POP/PBT/vPvB properties

This paper relates to the assessment of transformation products (i.e. metabolites, degradation or reaction products), which are formed from plant protection products. It addresses a detail in Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009 which is not in line with other substance regulations for ⁠REACH⁠, medicinal products, and biocides.Our concern: Also transformation products can be hazardous subst...read more

Chemicals

Substitution of critical biocidal active substances under European law - Development of a comparative assessment concept for the environment

Authorisation of biocidal products in the European Union is a two-stage process, where the biocidal active substances are approved in a first step at the European level, and the biocidal products are authorised in a second step at member state level. If an active substance is designated as Candidate for Substitution during this process, a comparative assessment must be carried out for each biocida...read more

Air, Health

Health Effects of Ultrafine Particles

Systematic literature search and the potential transferability of the results to the German setting

Ultrafine particles represent the smallest size fractions of particles with sizes from one to about 100 nanometers in aerodynamic diameter . Thus, their specific health effects are related to their physical capacity to reach diverse organ systems. The aims of this project were to systematically review the scientific literature on the health effects of ultrafine particles, to evaluate the quality o...read more

Climate | Energy

Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions

Submission by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA)

The EU’s current 80-95% emissions reduction objective for 2050 laid down in the Low-Carbon-2050 Roadmap is an outdated target range and even more problematic, EU’s legally binding 2030 climate policy framework is rated to be far from being sufficient to bring the EU on track with the long-term temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. Now, with the 1.5C-special report of IPCC (IPCC, 2018), the g...read more