Future initiatives under preparation

To protect human health and the environment by eliminating or restricting the production and use of POPs, as defined in the Stockholm Convention, three news European initiatives for new delegated regulations are under preparation.

Those initiatives concern:

- PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related compounds (included in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021). It amends the PFOA concentration as an unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and articles, and removes a specific exemption that is no longer needed in the EU.
- HBCDD (included in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021). It amends the limit value for the presence of HBCDD as an unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and articles.
- PBDEs (included in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021). It amends the limit value for the presence of PBDEs in mixtures or articles.