About the Chemicals Coffee Time Archive
Welcome to the Chemicals Coffee Time Archive! Here you can find all our previous weekly editions (including when the newsletter was called “Coronavirus Chemicals Update”). We also have the Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly articles which are available via LinkedIn; and some summary articles which collate information on important topics from several newsletters. The Chemicals Coffee […]
Chemicals Coffee Time, 6th October 2023
Dear Friend, Happy Friday! It’s been raining for a couple of days here. Meg, our old dog, really dislikes the rain these days (unless there’s some interesting scent about), as cocker spaniels only have a single layer of fur, so both dogs are in their rain coats this morning. The good news is that the […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, July 2023
August 8, 2023 Dear Friend, July was a very busy month with updates to various pieces of EU legislation (despite it being summer holiday time). Speaking of which, we discovered that in Sweden, you have to take a 4 week holiday during the summer months, see https://www.oresunddirekt.dk/en/find-a-job-in-sweden/term-of-employment/taking-holidays-in-sweden . I wonder if it’s to allow people to make […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, June 2023
July 3, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the June 2023 editions of Chemicals Coffee Time! We’ve got some updates on EU and UK REACH, and quite a bit on Poison Centre Notification. Good news – UK-REACH deadline extensions confirmed The UK-REACH registration deadline extensions have been placed into UK law, after a […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, May 2023
June 2, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the May 2023 editions of Chemicals Coffee Time! Good news – Annex VIII to CLP being removed from GB Excellent news from Douglas Leech of the Chemical Business Association on the 12th of May 2023, as following his persistent lobbying, DHSC had just emailed him (and others) to announce […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, April 2023
May 8, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the April 2023 editions of Chemicals Coffee Time. In April, we finally had confirmation that the UK-REACH registration deadlines are being extended. However, we’ve also discovered that there can be a problem with DUINs made by companies outside GB, which means that these may only […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, March 2023
April 10, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the March 2023 edition of Chemicals Coffee Time (with a little bit from February and April as well). We were already reeling from the impact of industry having to supply extra tariff document codes relating to EU-REACH Authorisation and Restriction status when the really big […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, February 2023
March 8, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the February 2023 issues of Chemicals Coffee Time, our weekly email newsletter (with a little bit from March as well). We’re finding a lot of issues with Biocides here in the UK following Brexit, so it’s this month’s theme, but we’ve also got some news […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, January 2023
January 30, 2023 Dear Friend, Welcome to the compilation from the January 2023 issues of Chemicals Coffee Time. You may remember that the EU’s proposals for CLP labelling were announced in late December, just in time to be forgotten over the Christmas period, but as we’ve gone into the requirements in detail, we’ve realised that […]
Chemicals Coffee Time Monthly, December 2022
January 6, 2023 Dear Friend, Happy New Year! This is our round-up of the December issues of Chemicals Coffee Time. The big news is that there is (yet another) consultation on the EU-CLP changes proposed under the Von Der Leyen European Commission as part of the “Green Deal”. EU-CLP proposed changes There are two parts […]