The Commission presented on 8 July an Action Plan for the chemicals industry to strengthen the competitiveness and modernisation of the EU chemical sector, accompanied by a simplification omnibus on chemicals to simplify EU chemicals legislation, and a proposal to reform the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
With the omnibus legislation, the Commission proposes to amend three legislations, including the Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR). The Commission wants to facilitate registration for fertilising products by aligning information requirements with standard REACH rules for chemicals, to introduce criteria and a methodology for the assessment of micro-organisms used in biostimulants, to be able to adopt delegated acts which amend several component materials at the same time, and to further digitalise the information and reporting obligations.
With this text, the Commission aims to undertake a simplification process, which will continue with another omnibus on the environment, expected in October.