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In Europe, security and defense cooperation have long been the realm of member states and other security organizations like NATO. But recent efforts at the EU level have begun to create a European defense sector—which presents unique challenges and opportunities.

The Commission has launched a public consultation on the simplification and digitalisation of labelling of chemical products such as glues, laundry and dishwashing detergents, fertilising products. Labels accompanying products are the primary means to communicate essential information to users, including hazard and safety information and product use-instructions. Yet, the Fitness Check of the most relevant […]

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The Commission is now prohibiting the use of 23 Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Toxic for reproduction (CMR) chemicals in cosmetic products, due to their long-term and serious effects on human health. The ban is applicable from 1 March 2022, to ensure that cosmetic products used daily by Europeans are safer, no matter which EU country they […]

22 Dec 2020   |   News A miserable year, we all agree. But there were a few positive developments worth recalling… This has been, no doubt, a year to forget. But there are some things worth remembering. As Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice chancellor of South Africa’s University of Cape Town put it in an interview, “The crisis can be positive as well as negative. We haven’t been able to continue as planned but it has certainly been productive and forced us to think outside the box.” In tha...