Overview
Chemical Watch covered Steptoe’s success before the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) board of appeals in an October 13 article titled “BoA Annuls Echa Nano Compliance Check Decision.” On October 12, the ECHA board of appeals annulled four decisions requesting substance identity information on a “nano structured” substance. The board sided with the co-registrants (appellants), saying the terms are not defined in REACH or the available agency guidance and that ECHA’s decision failed to clearly define or describe their meaning.
Steptoe Brussels partner Ruxandra Cana, who led the firm’s representation of the appellants, says: “Importantly, the BoA acknowledged that the appellants had described the substance as a nano-structured substance in their registration dossier. The board also acknowledged that the guidance on IUCLID 5 does not require companies to submit different information for nanomaterials than would be submitted for non-nanomaterials.”
Ms. Cana was assisted on this matter by Steptoe’s Craig Simpson and Eléonore Mullier.
The full article can be read at Chemical Watch.
