September was a POPs month, CLP did the quieter and more consequential work, and the substitutes for yesterday's problem chemicals are becoming problems of their own.

If your product authorisation touches plant protection (or sits close enough to the PPP/biocides boundary) Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1123 deserves your attention. The regulation replaces the 2011 labelling framework for plant protection products. The headline change is a mandatory digital label by 2030. That's the part getting coverage. But there are a few things in the text that carry...

The newsletter is back, and we are kicking off its return with an overview of what the summer has brought. As it covers a longer period, this issue gets a bit…hefty. Future ones will be more concise, but this one felt like it needed more around it. And that was with ECHA News taking a break in July.