EU Chemicals Enforcement Forum March Meeting Highlights: CLP Regulation Verification to Launch in 2026

The EU Chemicals Enforcement Forum held a remote meeting from March 18-20, 2025, where it reviewed and approved the detailed plan for the REF-14 joint enforcement action. This initiative aims to launch a comprehensive verification of compliance with the Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) Regulation in 2026.

Key Meeting Highlights

1. REF-14 Joint Enforcement Action Focus

• Emerging risk products:

• • • Nicotine products containing highly toxic substances (e.g., e-liquids for vaping).
    • Aromatic mixtures such as air fresheners with irritant ingredients.
• Innovative regulatory scenarios:
• • • Compliance with new 2026 rules for foldable labels and digital labels.
    • Verification of mixtures supplied at refilling stations.

Current status: Inspection manuals are under development, with on-site EU-wide checks slated for the first half of 2026.

2. Collaboration with Biocidal Products Regulation Subgroup (BPRS)

• Shared a case database on classification disputes for air fresheners.
• Reported progress on cracking down on illegal use of diisocyanates in coatings/adhesives.
• Disclosed outcomes of combating cross-border "black industry chains" for illicit disinfectants and pesticides.

3. Three Strategic Projects Advanced

• Building a testing methodology repository covering REACH, CLP, and other regulations.
• Assessing discrepancies in member states’ implementation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation.
• Analyzing overlaps between the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) and the Drinking Water Directive.

Next Steps

The Enforcement Forum and BPRS subgroup will convene a mid-year meeting in June 2025 to discuss enforcement adaptation plans following upcoming revisions to the CLP Regulation.

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• EU REACH Registration (including OR services);
• EU REACH Evaluation Compliance Services;
• SVHC Testing;
• EU CLP Compliance;
• EU Poison Center Notification; and 
• EU BPR Compliance.

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