SEAC concludes on restriction proposal on PFOA

SEAC adopted its opinion on the proposal from Germany and Norway to restrict the manufacture, marketing and use of PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related substances, as well as of articles and mixtures containing these substances.

SEAC confirmed its draft opinion of September 2015 that the proposed restriction is the most appropriate EU-wide measure to address the identified risks, in terms of the proportionality of its socio-economic benefits to its socio-economic costs, provided that the conditions are modified. Having considered almost 70 comments received during the public consultation on the draft opinion agreed in September 2015, SEAC supported some further changes to the conditions of the proposed restriction, e.g. additional time-limited derogations for pulsed plasma nano-coating, for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, for some specific technical textiles and for spare parts produced before the entry into force of the restriction. Furthermore, SEAC made some adjustments to the proposed derogations for firefighting foams.

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