RPA has been selected as one of three framework contractors for the European Commission (DG Environment) to provide scientific and technical assistance for the implementation of several chemicals legislations.

We are pleased to announce that our abstract “The costs and impacts of the winter 2013/14 floods in England and Wales” has been accepted for the advance programme for the Flood & Coast 2016 event at Telford International Centre from 23-25 February 2015.

RPA launches the first phase of the public consultation supporting the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI) in its preparation of a RoHS Annex II dossier for the restriction of use of MCCP in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE).

A guest article formulated by RPA and their Authorisation associates, FoBiG, features in this month’s volume of Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the magazine of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Nachrichten aus der Chemie has the highest sold circulation of any journal for chemistry in Germany, reaching GDCh’s 30,000 members and approximately 50,000 other readers.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has just published the ruling on the 0.1% threshold for notifying SVHCs in articles applies to each of the articles incorporated as a component of a complex product rather than to the article as a whole. Impacts of these changes will be far reaching and will be felt across a broad range of industries.