European Printing Ink Association (EuPIA)

In principle, one can only agree to the goals of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD), however being a Directive, it needs to be transposed to EU member state national law that determines how to achieve its goals.

EuPIA welcomes the Inception Impact Assessment on the revision of EU rules on food contact materials and supports the objective of the new initiative “to build a comprehensive, future-proof and enforceable regulatory system for FCMs at EU level that fully ensures food safety and public health, guarantees effective functioning of the internal market and promotes sustainability.” EuPIA considers the legal framework as…

The European Printing Ink Industry Association (EuPIA) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the initiative “Chemical safety – better access to chemicals data for safety assessments”, as the improved access to chemicals data originating from public authorities, private entities or scientific literature by removing technical and administrative obstacles to that access is especially important for downstream…

EuPIA agrees with the assessment that the EU regulatory framework for hazard and risk assessment and management of chemicals consists of many pieces of legislation and that it involves various actors, at different points in time, using different data and various EU agencies like the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) or the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).