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