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EXCLUSIVE Documents now available on the NIA Website

Published: Saturday 17 October 2009

Registered NIA Members can now download the following exclusive documents (i.e. Meeting Presentations, Meeting Notes, etc.), recently uploaded onto the secure ‘Members only’-area of the NIA website.

Meeting Reports (by the NIA Delegate):
The following Meeting Reports have been written by NIA delegates; these Meeting Reports are intended for the use by registered NIA Members only. 

9th October 2009: 
Stakeholder Conference: Nanomaterials on the Market - What Regulators Need to Know
(Brussels, 9th October 2009)

SUMMARIES & SOUNDBITES: 

US:
The US EPA’s next steps are (Kristan Markey (US EPA)):
  • Developing mandatory data collection and data development rules [NOTE: the US EPA expects to launch the mandatory reporting scheme in 2010/2011, with a four year inventory update]
  • Revisiting definitions of ‘molecular identity’ under TSCA
France:
Next Steps (according to Grenelle law n°1 article 42):
  • Within 2 years, a compulsory reporting to the authorities, regarding quantities and uses of nanomaterials and a supply of information to the public and consumers shall be enforced
Europe:
  • The Commission will react to the requests made in the [European Parliament’s] Own Initiative Report by reviewing all relevant legislation within two years, in order to assess how nanomaterials must best be regulated to ensure citizens’ and environmental safety. (Stavros Dimas (Environment Commissioner))
  • The Commission needed to take a strong leading role in the process of establishing nano-specific amendments to REACH. (Ethel Forsberg (KEMI), Swedish Presidency)
  • The Commission [has] no plans to introduce an additional [to REACH requirements] reporting scheme. [...] any efforts to gather information on nanomaterials should consider the internal market and should ideally be aligned and coordinated. (Gustaaf Borchardt (DG ENV))

 

Related Links:
EXCLUSIVE Documents now available on the NIA Website
Meeting Reports (by the NIA Delegate):
10th September 2009:  Scientific Hearing on Risk Assessment of Nanotechnologies 
(Conference centre A, Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels 10th September 2009)  

The collaborative research project entitled ‘Regulating Nanotechnologies in the EU and US ‘  (i.e. a project involving researchers from Chatham House, the London School of Economics, the Environmental Law Institute and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) has launched its final report: entitled ‘Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation’. (10th September 2009)
 
The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) has announced plans to establish a ‘scheme for Norwegian businesses to report their use of nanomaterials in chemical products’. (25th June 2009)