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1 " Meeting with Essential Use coalition When: 4 June 2021, 09:45 Where: Microsoft Teams Participants Eosontiol UsesCaaiition.EUROFER ickel Institute Eurobat pthin Nederland (ION; Vereniging Industrieel Opperviaktebehandelend Commission istoScheiber director GROWF GROWF-1 ROW F.1 ROW FL ROW .2 ROWF.2 cy 5.2 NVB2 The EssentialUse Coalition underlined the Importanocef hazardous substances for uses in a very wide range of products, including for products which can promote the objectives of the Green Deal, Intheir view, essential use assessment in awide range of products and throughout whole supplychains would bea lengthy and potentially bureaucratic process, creating uncertainties for industry Aplying generic approach torestrictions automatically and in a too widearea might be counterproductifvoer sustainable development (e.g. durability, circularity, energy and climate aspects Theyconsideredthatthare was a neteo d excludesafe uses (where there is no rik) from the scope of such restrictions. Otherthwisicosuled lead to banning safe productsifthey are. not considered essential They presented a flow-chart showing how in their view the practical application of the essential uses concept could work They supported the use of Regulatory Management Options Analysis (RMOA) They asked about the Commission's discretion in the future restrictions tosetthe scope of such restrictions and whether there wouldbe ascientific assessment by ECHA's committees and public consultations, (Details see attached presentation) The Commission services explained the reasoning for the extension of the existing generic risk approach to further hazard classes and uses. They underlined that within the generic risk approach there needsto be adifferentiation between substances and mixtures on the one hand and articles on the other hand, which might not allbeaddressed in the same way and at the same time. Also, not every use would undergo a separate essential use assessment. + One of the purposes of the essential use concept is to facilitate. the derogations for harmful chemicals, so that they can be used `when essential to society, in particulator achievethe Green Deal goals. An effective, efficient and practical way of integrating essential use considerations into decision making will be needed, taking into account the experience from the currentsystemalready in REACH andsimilar existing systems (existing generic restrictions. for CMR in REACH, RoHS, Toy Safety Directive etc). The discussion is stillat an early stage and many details will need to be worked out. The Commission explained the next steps in the discussion and in the legislative processteos revise REACH and other legislation in which the concept will also be integrated. `Theyalso recalled the ongoing work by five Member States on a restriction of PFAS substances iall except essential uses. The future REACH authorisatainodn restrictions system, including theway authorisations/derogations will be granted, is also part of the planned REACH revision. It is difficult to predict the exact operation of the restriction and derogation system in future. However, its clear that there will be some sort of scientific assessment by the Commission and/or ECHApriorto proposing future restrictions and in particular for derogations. from such restrictions.