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Regulatory News
4th AMENDMENT OF PLASTIC DIRECTIVE 2002/72/EC PROPOSED
Following a new practice recently adopted by the European Commission that consists in submitting all new legislation to economic impact analysis, the so-called "Super Regulation" has been put on-hold.
Some of the concepts already contained in the said Super Regulation have been transferred in a proposal for fourth amendment of the plastic Directive 2002/72/EC, presented to the Industry and to the member states on October 6th. In particular, such amendment contains:
- Harmonized rules for Declaration of Compliance. The document shall be provided along the packaging manufacturing chain attesting that the supplied material or article fulfils the applicable legislation. It should therefore report information on specific restrictions, conditions of use (type of food, temperature, time etc.) and surface-to-volume ratio.
- Provisions on "supporting documentation", which demonstrate compliance with all applicable legislation and shall be kept available for control by authorities on demand.
- The introduction of Food Consumption Factors, allowing the use of corrected reduction factors for the calculation of specific migration of fat-soluble additives (a list of these additives was also provided).
- Exemption of polymerization production aids (PAAs) from positive listing. The modified list of additives will then continue to cover only substances, which are incorporated into plastics to achieve a technical effect in the finished product.
- The incorporation in the legislation of a positive list of surface antimicrobial substances, aimed at inhibiting microbiological contamination of surfaces with which food may be in contact, such as chopping boards, conveyor belts etc. The use of such substances will be restricted to industrial application unless other uses (notably household) are explicitly approved by the Commission.
- New simulant for testing migration in milk and dairy products, including new and more restrictive rules for calculating migration in cheese.
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