Imports, Hazardous Substances, Chemicals

The Launch of Brazilian “REACH”

Mayer Brown on 8/11/2025

Brazilian Federal Law No. 15.022/2024 was enacted in November 2024. The law is also known as the "Chemical Substances Registration Act" or as the "Brazilian REACH". The law establishes rules for creating a National Inventory...more

UK REACH Update: Imminent Deadlines and Challenges

McDermott Will & Schulte on 10/20/2021

While it is nearly a year into the post-Brexit chemicals regulatory regime, the infrastructure to accommodate UK REACH registrations is not yet running smoothly and as a result importers and distributors of chemical...more

A look at the EU Market Surveillance Regulation

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 10/29/2020

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 21 (October 29, 2020) - The European Union has some of the world’s most robust environmental, health and safety standards for products sold and imported into the market. Despite...more

The UK Releases Further Technical Notices Outlining Separate Regulatory Regimes

K&L Gates LLP on 10/26/2018

Further to our previous Brexit alert regarding a UK-REACH regime, on 12 October 2018 the UK Government released a number of other notices that outline further UK regulatory regimes on classification, labelling and packaging...more

What would a no-deal Brexit look like for the UK chemicals industry?

Hogan Lovells on 10/3/2018

The UK government has recently published a technical notice to guide businesses that produce, register, import or export chemicals on what they will need to do if the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 in a 'no deal' scenario...more

Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 12/13/2017

This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from October 16, 2017 – November 15, 2017. This month brings us a heavy environmental regulatory agenda in Latin America. Brazil aimed to close loopholes on take-back...more

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate (in the Workplace)

Williams Mullen on 5/20/2016

For the third consecutive year, OSHA’s second most cited violation was for failure to comply with the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). The HCS was promulgated in 1983 and requires chemical manufacturers and importers to...more

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