Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is the leading not-for-profit organisation addressing how the environment affects human health in the European Union (EU) and beyond. We would like to express our concern that the protection of human health and the maintaining of environmental safeguards seem to have been dropped from the impact assessment for the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act, as evidenced by…

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the draft proposal for a revision of the CLP legislation and overall shares a positive assessment of the set of measures put forward by the European Commission in order to modernise the legislation and make it more protective, efficient, and coherent. Our detailed observations and recommendations are provided in the attachment.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the inception impact assessment for the revision of the EU legislation on hazard classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals (CLP).

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s plans for revisions of the EU Food Contact Materials (FCM) legislation. HEAL has long called on the EU authorities to close the loopholes in the legislation, which put the health of Europeans at risk through potential leaching of chemicals of concerns from the food contact articles and materials into the food.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the inception impact assessment for the revision of the REACH legislation. We support the Commission’s assessment of the state of the legislation.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), an alliance of over 70 member organisations working for better health through a healthier environment has great concerns that this consultation is part of efforts to deregulate key health protective environmental legislation and slow down the much-needed stronger implementation and enforcement of EU environmental and climate legislation.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the call for evidence. HEAL, its members, and the wider health community have consistently underlined that the climate crisis is a health crisis, and that safeguarding public health needs to be at the centre of Europes climate resilience and preparedness efforts.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the leading not-for-profit organisation addressing how the environment affects health in the European Union and beyond, welcomes the opportunity to provide input into this call for evidence on the upcoming development of a do no significant harm (DNSH) guidance for the 2028-2034 Multiannual financial framework (MFF).

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the Call for Evidence on the evaluation of the Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 on biocidal products (BPR). Biocidal products have the aim of killing or controlling unwanted living organisms. They are designed to affect organisms and therefore have the potential to pose serious hazards and risks for people and the environment.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to contribute. HEAL, its members, and the wider health community have consistently underlined that the climate crisis is a health crisis, and that public health needs to be at the centre of Europes climate resilience and preparedness efforts.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the Call for Evidence on the evaluation of the Cosmetic Products Regulation No 1223/2009 (CPR). Considering that the CPR aims to protect consumer health, and in light of the many chemicals of concern still found in cosmetics products, we believe a revision of the regulation would improve its relevance e.g.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to contribute. HEAL, its members, and the wider health community have consistently underlined that the climate crisis is a health crisis, and that public health needs to be at the centre of climate mitigation, resilience and preparedness efforts.

Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to health in the European region and globally, leading to 400,000 premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros in health costs in Europe each year. There is a large body of evidence on how air pollution harms health. Poor air quality is a leading risk factor for chronic disease including heart and lung diseases or cancer.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the proposal for an ECHA Basic Regulation (COM(2025) 386), aiming to strengthen the governance of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and to increase the sustainability of its financing model, especially considering the existing and planned reassignment of new scientific and technical work to the agency.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the EU Commission proposal for a basic regulation for the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). HEAL fully supports this proposal, which is necessary in order for the Agency to properly carry out its tasks - the latter have significantly expanded since the Agency started operating and the implementation of the EU Chemicals Strategy for…

An ambitious EU Product Policy Framework contributing to the Circular Economy should take place in the context of an articulated European Strategy for a non-toxic environment, which is one of the deliverables the European Commission is committed to under the 7th Environment Action Programme. In HEAL's new, regulations for new products need to be strengthened, in particular through better implementation of REACH.

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the draft Decision on the 8th Environment Action Programme (8EAP) from the European Commission, which will now go into legislative debate. In particular we welcome the objective on pursuing a zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free-environment (Article 2.d).

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the European Commission proposed amendment of the annex III of regulation 1107/2009 (thereafter PPPR) listing co-formulants which are not accepted for inclusion in plant protection products (PPP).

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the leading not-for-profit organisation addressing how our environment affects health in the European Union and beyond welcomes the opportunity to provide comments. HEAL considers that the Commissions draft implementing act under Article 8 of Directive (EU) 2024/2881, in its form as published on 25 February 2026: 1.