SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) Roadmap launched on ECHA Website

ECHA’s website gives a section providing stakeholders information on how ECHA, the EC, and EU Member States plan to implement the SVHC Roadmap leading up to 2020. ECHA states that the SVHC Roadmap 2020 focuses on finding new potentially relevant substances of very high concern (SVHC) with CMR, sensitizing, PBT/very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB), and/or endocrine disrupting properties. The best regulatory risk management option should then be identified to manage their risks, using either REACH or CLP (authorization, restriction, or harmonized classification and labelling).c “Transparency is one of the cornerstones of the implementation of the roadmap. Publicly available information will help stakeholders to understand the roadmap’s objectives, scope and practical implementation, including timelines. It will also increase the predictability on what risk management measures regulatory authorities recommend for substances with certain hazard/fate and use profiles,” says Geert Dancet, ECHA’s Executive Director.