Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Health Canada (HC) run a new consultation on a Proposed prioritization approach for nanoscale forms of substances on the Domestic Substances List (DSL) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA)

Through its participation to the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), NIA is able to provide comments to key OECD documents.

Prepared by the German delegation, and part of the OECD Working Group of the National Coordinators of the Test Guidelines (WNT) expert group on the environmental fate of nanomaterials, the draft OECD draft new test guideline on agglomeration of nanomaterials in aquatic media is now open for comments. 

ECHA has just launched on 25 January 2017 a consultation for Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP (CARACAL) and the European Commission for a draft Appendix to Chapter R.6 of the Guidance on IR&CSA (QSARs and grouping of chemicals) on 'recommendations for nanomaterials'

ECHA has launched, on 31 January 2017 a consultation for Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP (CARACAL) and the European Commission for a draft update of the Appendices to Chapters R.7a, R.7b and R7.c of the Guidance on IR&CSA (Endpoint specific guidance) on “recommendations for nanomaterials” regarding environmental endpoints

The Swedish Chemical Agency (Kemikalieinspektionen, KEMI) launched in the Autumn of 2016 a consultation reporting requirements for nanomaterials in products aimed for the Swedish market