Effective June 18, 2010, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added another eight substances to the candidate list of substances of very high concern (svhc) after the committee of the member states of the European Union had taken a respective decision a few days before, June 14, 2010. The substances are the following:  
 • Trichloroethylene: CAS [...]

In a ‘Facts Report of the REACH-EN-FORCE-1 project’ ECHA has published a status report on enforcement of the regulation throughout the EU member countries, Norway, and Iceland. However, three EU member countries did not participate in the project: Lithuania, Luxemburg, and Italy. As has been largely disputed, the number of controls of companies per countries [...]