RPA is pleased to announce that the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have published their report based upon work conducted by Meg Postle of RPA and RPA Associate Anthony Footitt.

RPA, Dr Daniel Jones from Advanced Invasives and Russell Hewitson, an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School, have been commissioned by Defra to undertake a scoping study on international approaches to Japanese knotweed in the context of property sales.

Two webinars will be held in early November and will focus on the ADCR, and its activities.

ECHA has published its ninth recommendation to the European Commission prioritising 18 SVHCs to be added to the REACH Authorisation list (Annex XIV). The public consultation, on the draft recommendation ended in December 2018, followed by the adoption of the Member State Committee Opinion on 26 June 2019. This endorsed the addition of all 18 substances to the Authorisation list.

The launch meeting of the newly formed Aerospace and Defence Chromates Re-authorisation (ADCR) Consortium was held in Brussels on the 20 September to mark the start of the work towards new and repeat Authorisation applications, the first time on a sectoral basis.