Press Release: Council adopts biocides regulation

On 10 March 2014, the Council of the European Union adopted a regulation amending biocides regulation.

The objective of the existing regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market in biocidal products whilst ensuring a high level of environmental and human health protection. The new regulation aims at remedying problems related to provisions of the above-mentioned biocides regulation which has been in force since 1 September 2013. In particular, it removes unintended market barriers for suppliers of new articles treated with biocidal products and for a large number of suppliers of biocidal active substances.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Agreement reached on access to the market of biocidal products http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-agreement-reached-on-access-to-the-market-of-biocidal-products/

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