15 July 2019
Chemicals compliance
The Court of the European Union has rejected the appeal presented by PlasticsEurope (European association of European plastics producers), regarding the inclusion of bisphenol A in the list of substances of very high concern (SVHC).
This substance, used in the production of polycarbonate and epoxy-phenolic resins (the latter used in the internal aluminium coating of cans and drinking water tanks), was inserted by ECHA in the Candidate List because of its toxic properties for reproduction.
The appeal presented by PlasticsEurope is due to an alleged violation of the proportionality principle by ECHA, which would have included the substance on the list without excluding the intermediate uses.
However, the judges rejected the appeal, based on the assumption that the sentence reads:
"a substance used as an isolated intermediate on site or as a transported isolated intermediate is not automatically excluded from the scope of all the provisions of the REACH Regulation. Therefore, the substance is not exempted from the identification procedure provided by that Regulation”.
Furthermore, "The regulation does not prevent a substance from being identified as extremely problematic, even if it is used only as an isolated intermediate on site or as a transported isolated intermediate".
For these reasons, bisphenol A remains on the candidate list for authorized use only.
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Chemicals compliance
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