Sustainable Products Initiative

Sustainable Products Initiative

An EU public consultation is open to 2nd November 2020 on “Sustainable Products” policy, in particular EcoDesign. The ‘Roadmap’ open to public comment suggests that the “scope of the Ecodesign Directive needs to be widened beyond energy related products and made...
Product environmental claims

Product environmental claims

An EU public consultation is open to 3rd December 2020 on “Substantiating claims of environmental performance”. This targets PEFs (Product Environmental Footprints) but also discusses ecolabels, environmental performance reporting, sustainability ratings,...
EU Commission answer on FR policy

EU Commission answer on FR policy

Flame retardants will be targeted in EU policy developments for Sustainable Products and Green Public Purchasing, says Thierry Breton (European Commissioner for Internal Market). The statement is in response to a question from three Portuguese European Parliament...
Construction Products Regulation

Construction Products Regulation

The EU public consultation on the review of the CPR is open to 22nd December 2020. This follows the Evaluation of the Regulation, published in 2019 which concluded that the regulation does facilitate an EU market but identifies problems with development of harmonised...
The Swedish Chemical tax on Electronics is not working

The Swedish Chemical tax on Electronics is not working

Brussels, 5 October 2020 – Pinfa welcomes the conclusion of the report “Evaluation of the tax on chemicals in certain electronics” presented to the Swedish government on I October 2020, which found the chemical tax to be ineffective in its current form....