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Are you importing or exporting hazardous chemicals?
The Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation regulates the import and export of hazardous chemicals between the EU and third countries, and implements the global Rotterdam Convention within the European Union. The recast of PIC will enter into operation on 1 March 2014 and, at the same time, ECHA will take over the operational responsibility from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
"The use of chemicals regulated under PIC is by definition either banned or severely restricted in the EU, but are under certain derogations still manufactured and exported all over the world," says Chiara Macchi from ECHA's Registration Directorate.
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Heidi Pihol, Istvan Mak, Chiara Macchi and Raluca Pica are part of the team working on PIC at ECHA. |
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Interview by Hanna-Kaisa Torkkeli
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30 November-4 December (tentative)
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