In anticipation of Climate Week, the UK has established a taskforce of senior financial experts to develop proposals to accelerate investment in the low carbon economy and enable UK businesses to benefit. The Green Finance Taskforce will have six months to make its recommendations and will examine a range of interventions including making infrastructure investment more sustainable and scaling-up green mortgages.
ECHA has launched a new consultation for nine proposed substances of very high concern. The deadline for comment is 20 October 2017.
Environmental Justice Australia has filed a case against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for failure to report on climate change risks in its 2016 annual report. This lawsuit should set a precedent that would guide disclosure of climate change risks for all companies.
ECHA has added Perfluorohexane-1-sulfonic acid and its salts (PFHxS) to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern. There are now 174 SVHCs.
13 organisations have received civil penalties for failure to comply with the requirements of the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme. Penalties issued ranged from £250 to £20,000.
12 new substances now need authorisation to be used after the sunset date. The Authorisation List now contains 43 substances.
BSI has published voluntary guidance standard BS 8001 to provide a practical framework for organisations wishing to implement circular economy principles.
The Compliance Map will be sponsoring the upcoming IPC & ITI Conference on Emerging & Critical Environmental Product Requirements on June 5th in San Jose, June 7th in Chicago and June 9th in Boston.
In accordance with the requirements of Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment, the EU Commission has issued a report reviewing its scope, the deadlines for reaching collection targets and the possibility of setting individual collection targets for one or more WEEE categories.
Please join us for an upcoming webinar on Conflict Minerals management, April 6th at 9am EST
MEPs have approved a draft EU conflict minerals regulation aimed at preventing the minerals trade from funding conflict and human rights violations. The law will oblige all importers of tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold to carry out due diligence checks on their suppliers from 1 January 2021.
The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee has published its report which highlights changes that will be required to environmental law and enforcement once the UK leaves the EU.
Come visit Compliance Map at the upcoming EICC conference during the week of the 7th November.
The Compliance Map, a developer of supply chain and environmental compliance software solutions, has launched a brand new free material content IPC / IEC form builder at TheComplianceBuilder.com.
ComplianceBuilder users in industries such as electronics, manufacturing, and medical devices can now automate IEC 62474 and IPC 1752A disclosure forms, which are the most common material declarations for products.
The Compliance Map, a developer of supply chain and environmental compliance software solutions, has partnered with SiliconExpert Technologies (SiliconExpert) to deliver an end-to-end compliance service for clients across the electronics and medical device industries.
Legislation designed to reduce the environmental impacts of products including REACH, RoHS, WEEE, Batteries, Packaging, End of Life Vehicles and Ecodesign requirements for energy-related products were all negotiated and agreed at EU level. In light of Brexit, what impacts can we expect on UK environmental product regulations?
Governments around the world have committed to reporting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of the Paris agreement. This is essential in providing data that can inform climate change policy and ensure that commitments to reduce emissions are met. Reporting of emissions at company level is already mandatory in many developed countries and there is a growing requirement for data. Companies who do not have systems in place to manage and report on this data are at risk of penalties associated with non-compliance and may deter potential investors.
Most companies will weigh up risks of non-compliance with the WEEE Directive against the costs associated with changing their current practises. However, many fail to recognise the opportunities that an effective compliance system offers in terms of its support for cost reduction and product innovation.
Although many companies invest in a packaging compliance system to simply to meet their legal obligations, the fact that enforcement is often weak may seem at first to provide an argument for not doing so. However, non-compliance exposes a business to risks beyond financial penalties.
The Compliance Map has launched a brand new product - the Supply Chain Transparency Module - which is designed to help industry combat forced labour and human trafficking.