fitness check on chemicals legislation fertilisers working group meeting brussels, 15 december 2014

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Fertilisers Working Group meetingBrussels, 15 December 2014

Table of contents

• Background on REFIT• Background on Fitness checks• Fitness check on chemicals legislation• Next steps

Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT)

•Launched in December 2012 in the context of smart regulation

•Goal: simplifying EU law, reducing unnecessary regulatory burden and contributing to a clear, stable & predictable regulatory framework

•Different measures:

• Legislative actions: amendments and consolidations

• Repeals and withdrawals

• Evaluations and fitness checks

•Scoreboard (latest: 18 June 2014)

REFIT programme

• Comprehensive policy evaluations, assessing whether the regulatory framework for a policy sector is fit for purpose

• Identifying excessive regulatory burden, overlaps, gaps, inconsistencies, obsolete measures, etc.

• Assessing effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value of the legislative framework

Fitness checks

Background

•Complex legislative framework

•Survey on burdensome legislation for SMEs

•Stakeholder feedback on issues at interfaces of different legislation

•Certain CARACAL members calling for a systematic review of the links between CLP and other legislation

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Planned fitness check:

Fitness Check on the most relevant chemicals legislation (other than REACH) as well as related aspects of legislation applied to downstream industries

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communication

Mandate currently under discussion

Legislative framework for the risk management of chemicals:

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communication

CLP PBT/vPvB

Mandate currently under discussion

Examples of relevant legislation within the scope of the fitness check:

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,

restriction of use, other measures

CLP

CLP Seveso PPP Biocides EcolabelWaste Cosmetics

Mandate currently under discussion

Examples of relevant legislation within the scope of the fitness check:

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,

restriction of use, other measures

CLP

CLP Seveso PPP Biocides EcolabelWaste Cosmetics

Mandate currently under discussion

Examples of relevant legislation within the scope of the fitness check:

e.g. for plant biostimulants

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,

restriction of use, other measures

• Direct link,• Risk

assessment• Socio-

economic factors

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,

restriction of use, other measures

• Direct link,• Risk

assessment• Socio-

economic factors

e.g. SCHER

Fitness check on chemicals legislation

Hazard identification & classification

Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,

restriction of use, other measures

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• Fertilisers industry affected by chemicals legislation(e.g. labelling under CLP)

• Secondary raw materials covered by chemicals legislation(e.g. digestates covered under REACH(?))

• Interplay of different legislation affecting organic/inorganic fertilisers in the current framework (e.g. PPP vs. fertilisers)

Relevance for fertilisers industry

• Finalisation of fitness check mandate

• Consultation on relevant issues to be assessed

Input from Member States and stakeholders needed:

• Issues resulting from inconsistencies, incoherence, legal uncertainty, legal overlaps between different chemicals legislation, e.g. CLP vs. other legislation

Next steps