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Network of reference laboratories research centres and related organisations for monitoring of emerging environmental substances

NORMAN

The main missions of the NORMAN network are: - to enhance the exchange of information on emerging environmental substances - to encourage the validation and harmonisation of common measurement methods and monitoring tools so that the requirements of risk assessors and risk managers can be better met - to promote the synergies between research teams from different countries in the field of emerging substances.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Revision of EU legislation on registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals

31 May 2021

The NORMAN network (www.norman-network.net) is an independent, non-profit, multidisciplinary and multinational organisation in the field of CECs, which brings together more than 80 organisations in Europe, North America and Asia, representing various stakeholders such as competent authorities, reference laboratories established at the national level, research centres, academia and industry. We support the introdcution of endocrine disruptors, persistent, mobile and toxic and very persistent and very mobile substances as categories of substances of very high concern within REACH. This is in line with the ambitions of the EU Chemicals Strategy.
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Response to Revision of EU legislation on hazard classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals

31 May 2021

The NORMAN network (www.norman-network.net) is an independent, non-profit, multidisciplinary and multinational organisation in the field of contaminants of emerging concern, which brings together more than 80 organisations in Europe and beyond, representing various stakeholders such as competent authorities, reference laboratories established at the national level, research centres, academia and industry. We propose the integration of new hazard classes and criteria in the CLP Regulation to fully address environmental toxicity, persistency, mobility and bioaccumulation, by inclusion of PMT and vPvM as new hazard classes.
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