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Latest reports:
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- Product safety Directive: a proposal to replace the 20-year-old Directive
- The New Legislative Framework and CE Marking: 3 major new guidance documents
- Artificial intelligence systems: the EU's first attempt at regulation
- Climate Law: definitive agreement includes a 55% reduction target by 2030 in Greenhouse Gas Emissions below 1990 levels.
- Standards updates: low-voltage electrical safety, Eco-design/energy labelling, machinery, EMC, medical devices, pressure equipment
- Free Trade Agreements: several updates on EU priorities, including news of a failute of the EU's agreement on post-Brexit trade
- Single-use plastics: new, official guidance on implementation of the new directive.
- Mercury: several exemptions from the ban on mercury under the ROHS directive
- Cyber-security: another shake-up of the organisation of the EU's efforts
- Greenhouse gas emissions: advance warning of which will, in effect, extend the Emissions Trading System to foreign suppliers.
- Medical devices: authorisation to use electronic documentation for devices used only by professionals
- Telecommunications networks: problems in implementing EU Electronic Communications Code
- Tobacco products: a new, mandatory method for identifying characterising flavours, which are banned
- Agricultural fertilisers: labelling rules updated
- Non-agricultural pesticides: data requirements updated for applications for approval
- Chemical substances 1): methodology clarified for classifying products as carcinogenic / mutagenic
- Chemical substances 2): EU announces completion of safety reviews of substances of very high concern
- Chemical substances 3): modifications to the information which must be submitted for REACH registration
- Automotive type-approval: lengthy update to current process
- Automotive type-approval: new regulation for cyber-security protection
- Organic foods: updates to control procedures to implement latest regulation, and new mandatory certificate for foreign suppliers
- Food hygiene: mandatory factory checks on presence of allergens improved
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Europe, North America and east Asia.
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and mutual recognition of standards, tests and related policies
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