HEAL together with representatives from the medical, scientific, and civil society sectors, is calling on policymakers in Poland to develop a national action plan to reduce the health impacts of harmful chemicals and to support the revision of EU regulations. The appeal was presented on 10 June in Warsaw during the International Conference Preventing Disease by Reducing Exposure to Harmful Chemicals, held under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Polish Minister of Health, and the President of the Polish Supreme Medical Council.
HEAL has sent a letter to EU environment ministers ahead of an Environment Council meeting on 17 June 2025, calling on them to ensure that the REACH revision will deliver the long-awaited improvement of human health and environment protection from harmful chemicals.
The targeted revision of the REACH Regulation presents the opportunity to finally improve the effectiveness of REACH to better protect the environment and peoples’ health with simple and effective measures, minimising future costs for the remediation of environmental pollution.
HEAL calls on ministers for their leadership in addressing the following issues:
- Introduction of a mixture allocation factor (MAF) for chemical risk assessment
- Extension of the existing generic risk management approach (GRA) to the most hazardous chemicals
- Notification of polymers and registration of prioritised polymers
- Maintaining the authorisation process to phase-out substances of very high concern
Read HEAL’s letter to EU environment ministers: REACH revision and environmental health priorities
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