Within the REACH registration process, registrants of a substance must submit a Chemicals Safety Report that includes a Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA). If the CSA indicates that the substance should be classified as ‘hazardous’ then the Report must include a Risk...
The main elements of the REACH regulation (EU Official Journal L396, Vol 49, 30.12.2006) which enters into force on 1 June 2007, are the registration, evaluation, restriction and authorisation of chemical substances. With the exception of crude oil, which is regarded...
In October 2000 the European Commission published an all-encompassing Directive for water. Five years on from the first concept, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) was intended to replace a patchwork of other legislation, often overlapping and even contradictory,...
Water is an essential resource that has, over the years, come progressively higher on the international agenda because of its intimate relationship with both human health and ecosystem development. In the 40 years of CONCAWE’s existence water quality over the world in...
Report no. 4/03: This report has been prepared as a guidance manual for refining environmental and planning personnel who must prepare for the permitting and operational implications of the IPPC regulations which become applicable to existing operations in...
