The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) held a ‘Reality Check Workshop’ on the potential simplification of chemicals legislation. The legislations on the table: Cosmetics Products Regulation and the Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals (CLP). The presented proposals are very alarming: allowing carcinogenic substances more readily in cosmetics and personal care products and deleting the planned CLP update to make labelling in products more legible for consumers and workers.
The EU Healthy Air Coalition has sent a letter to the European Commission concerning the Clean Industrial Deal.
The group is concerned having seen no evidence of plans to reduce air pollution as part of the Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal. The science is crystal clear: air pollution remains the top environmental risk to health in Europe, resulting in hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros of costs annually. Despite the burden, most of the health and economic impacts are preventable.
EUHAC calls on the Commission to make the Clean Industrial Deal one which cleans up Europe’s air, for better health for all – demanding a Clean Air Deal.
Read the full letter here
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