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Fitness check on chemicals legislation
Fertilisers Working Group meetingBrussels, 15 December 2014
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Table of contents
• Background on REFIT• Background on Fitness checks• Fitness check on chemicals legislation• Next steps
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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
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• 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
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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
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Fitness check on chemicals legislation
Hazard identification & classification
Risk management measures & communication
Mandate currently under discussion
Legislative framework for the risk management of chemicals:
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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:
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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Fitness check on chemicals legislation
Hazard identification & classification
Risk management measures & communicatione.g. labelling, packaging, prohibition,
restriction of use, other measures
Ch
em
icals
W
aste
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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
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• 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