Vienna.....for romantic souls the city of the endless waltzes floating on the tones of the music created by Johann Strauss Jr. For die hard ecotoxicologists, however, Strauss may be quicker linked to the waterflea Daphnia magna Strauss and its role in assessing risks from biocidal products :-). Whatever, the emotions the word Strauss may evoke, Vienna provided a splendid scenery for hosting the 14th international conference on biocides.
The main points to be noted from this conference are the following:
- The deadline of the review process of active substances has been postponed to 2025.
- The Biocidal Products Regulation will probably take effect in September 2013. Until that day the BPD remains in force and there will not be any transitional arrangements.
- Annex I of the BPR will not be taken over from the BPD. It will contain a list of “harmless substances”. For products containing these actives there will be a simplified authorization procedure, provided that they also meet the criteria for low risk biocidal products (Article 17 of COM(2009)0267).
- The list of approved active substances will remain, but it will not be presented as an Annex to the legislation.
- PT (product type) 20 has been eliminated so there will be only 22 PTs. The old PT23 will become PT20.
- There was a lot of interest from industry in the requirements for Biocidal Product Families. Apparently the criteria are not so flexible as industry would have hoped. This will probably be a major topic on the next conference.
- A new version of the R4BP (online register for biocidal products) will become available in Q1 2012. It is the intention to include a possibility for uploading documents into this system and in the future the IUCLID format should be used although the platform, which will be established by ECHA, is not yet available.
- An interesting tidbit is that the total number of biocidal products in Europe is estimated at 55,000.
Not only have we learned much about the current status of the review process of active substances and products and the BPR, we can also be proud to have added a new word to our vocabulary: triologue (or should it be trialogue?). From a search on the internet we can find that the word "trialogue" derives from term "dialogue," which comes from the two Greek words dia (across) and logos (word), and literally means "words across." Just as di-a-logos means "words between two persons," tri-a-logos means "words among three persons. In the biocides world it is used for describing the discussions between the European Commission, the Parliament and Industry.
For more information on our services on Biocidal Product Registration contact hilde.dosogne@arche-consulting.be
Keep track of our latest news
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ARCHE got inspiration for its newest team event!
At ARCHE we are always in for challenges. So in our search for a thrill exceeding those we already got in our daily work, dealing with the challenges REACH deadlines pose to us and our clients, we stumbled on the following event :-)
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Take home messsages ARCHE's Biocidal Products Regulation training
On January 31st 2012 ARCHE and pIEt consulting have organized, at the ARCHE office in Ghent, a training on the Biocidal Products Regulation. We were happy to welcome 13 people from 11 different companies, from which we all received a positive feedback. Click to the right to read on.
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BIOCIDES 2011 conference in Vienna
ARCHE attended the 14th International annual conference in Vienna (Austria) (28-30th November 2011). The conference is organized by Feierl-Herzele GmbH, that also operates the European Biocides Information Network (https://www.europeanbiocides.net). This fully booked conference is greatly appreciated by participants by its interactive nature and the presence of both industry and government representatives. Click to the right to read on.
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EQSPAE conference in Hong-Kong
ARCHE presented at the International EQSPAE Conference 2011. With this conference, Hong Kong University and SETAC aim to provide an international platform for sharing knowledge on the advancement in the scientific derivation of EQ benchmarks for the protection for aquatic ecosystems and human health. Click to the right to read on.
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The launch of our new website
As you may have noticed by now, we have a new website. And we're quite happy about it too! Click on the arrow on the right for more information.
Meet us at these upcoming events
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6th SETAC World Congres
ARCHE is exhibiting at the 6th SETAC World Congress to be held 20-24 May 2012 in Berlin. In addition we are co-chairing a session on "Collection and use of monitoring data for environmental risk assessment of chemicals" scheduled on wednessday 23 May in the morning.
Topic: Securing a sustainable future: integrating science, policy and people
