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Nordiskt projekt visar: Många tvättmedel saknar varningsmärkning Kemikalietillsynsmyndigheterna i de fem nordiska länderna har i ett gemensamt projekt inspekterat 66 tillverkare och importörer av tvätt, sköljoch fläckborttagningsmedel för textilier. Syftet var att undersöka hur företagen bedömt sina produkter med avseende på den gemensamma EUlagstiftningen om klassificering och märkning av kemiska produkter. Närmare 380 produkter granskades. Många tvättmedel visade sig innehålla irriterande ämnen. Endast ett fåtal produkter var märkta enligt EU:s regler med den farosymbol som informerar om att produkten är irriterande. De nordiska tillsynsmyndigheterna konstaterar att så många som 45 procent av produkterna kan vara felaktigt bedömda. Tvättmedelsleverantörernas europeiska branschorganisation (AISE) har utarbetat egna tester för att bedöma hälsoeffekter av tvättmedel. De nordiska myndigheterna underkänner dessa tester och anser att de inte är jämförbara med de officiellt erkända. Om tvättmedlen inte är märkta på rätt sätt innebär det ett sämre skydd för alla som kommer i kontakt med dessa produkter, konstaterar de nordiska kemikalietillsynsmyndigheterna.

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The Russian chemicals legislation is in changing process. At the moment there is no common framework act on handling of hazardous chemicals in the Russian Federation and terminology in chemicals is different from the EU. This basis is intresting from a European point of view as there soon will be a new chemicals legislation (REACH) within EU with a close relation to the Global Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The task of analysis in this report was to provide information on existing chemicals management system in the Russian Federation and describe the following issues: 1. Hazardous information from producers to users: standards, requirements and formats 2. Safety requirements during chemicals use: where a company is getting information/knowledge on safety measures to apply during use of chemicals? 3. Environmental legislation related to providing information on quantities of hazardous substances used or released into environment including control mechanisms, environmental permit-ting and reporting plus inspection institutional set up 4. Institutional set up regarding entire chemicals management in the Russian Federation. This report has been elaborated in scope of the project "Awareness raising and capacity building on chemicals control in NW Russia" (BACCON RUS) which has been a co-operation project between Nordic Council of Ministers, Finland, Sweden and Russia. The project has been funded by Nordic Council of Ministers, Finnish Ministry of Environment and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

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The Nordic Risk Management Group under the Nordic Chemicals Group organised a workshop, where SocioEconomic Analysis (SEA) with respect to SEAs' future use in the new European chemical legislation REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) was discussed. The workshop focused on three themes: 1. information on substitutes, 2. benefits for health and environment and 3. dynamic consequences. The following aims were set for the workshop: The following aims were set for the workshop: o to exchange experiences of current work on SEA with the aim to identify ways how the knowhow developed could be transferred to future SEAs o to raise knowledge and understanding among the Nordic authorities on the possibilities and limitations in the work with SEAs o to identify important elements of the current SEA methodology, and the application thereof, that should be further developed with regard to the future use of SEA in the context of REACH o to provide input to the guidance documents that are being prepared in relevant REACH implementation projects (RIPs). Summaries of the presentations and conclusions from the discussions are presented in the report from the workshop.

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In 2004 the EU Commission initiated several REACH Implementation Projects (RIP) for development of technical guidance documents in support of the new EU Chemicals Legislation (REACH). The Nordic countries have worked on Information strategies in order to provide an early input to the RIP on information strategies that will prepare guidance documents to Industry regarding testing of chemicals. Guidance is needed on how the information should be generated, in a manner integrating different kinds of data by a weight of evidence approach (e.g., (Q)SAR, in vitro, in vivo data). The information strategies are stepwise procedures, where a higher level of data corresponds to more relevant, certain and accurate test data. The strategies should assist in deciding when sufficient data is available for the regulatory needs (e.g., classification and labelling, PBT-assessment, and risk assessment), considering the tonnage-based requirement set out by REACH. As the basis for elaboration of information strategies for selected environmental and human health end-points (to be published as part 2), some of the currently available testing and information requirements have been reviewed, e.g., the EU TGD, OECD guidance documents, and the REACH proposal. It has also been considered how data can be used for classification according to the GHS system. The analysis covers all environmental endpoints, and several human health endpoints. It is published in this report as part 1 of the Nordic project.

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