All Position statement articles
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Position StatementOur Asks: Strengthening UK-EU Chemicals Cooperation
The CIA supports stronger regulatory cooperation between the UK and EU on chemicals to reduce duplication, improve efficiency and maintain high standards of protection for human health and the environment. Implementing the Chemicals Annex within the Trade and Cooperation Agreement would support more effective information sharing, lower regulatory burdens and help strengthen the competitiveness, resilience and integration of chemical supply chains across both markets.
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Position StatementOur Asks: Classification, Labelling and Packaging
The CIA supports a science-based, proportionate and internationally harmonised approach to classification, labelling and packaging, ensuring effective communication of chemical hazards while maintaining alignment with global standards, supporting trade, and minimising unnecessary regulatory burdens on businesses and supply chains.
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Position StatementOur Asks: Reducing and Refining the Reliance on Animal Testing in Chemicals Regulation
The CIA supports a science-based and proportionate approach to reducing reliance on animal testing, promoting the development, validation and regulatory acceptance of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that maintain high standards of human health and environmental protection while advancing the replacement, reduction and refinement (3Rs) of animal use.
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Position StatementOur Asks: Essential Use
The CIA supports a science-based, proportionate and transparent approach to the implementation of the essential use concept, ensuring chemicals of concern are effectively managed while preserving critical applications where viable alternatives are not available and safeguarding innovation, supply chains and societal needs.
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Position StatementApplying The Essential Uses Concept To Chemical Legislation
Policymakers in the UK and EU are increasingly exploring whether the “essential use” concept could become a new organising principle for chemicals regulation. As discussions intensify around how to manage large groups of substances with potential human health or environmental concerns, the concept is gaining traction as a ...
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Position StatementUK and EU Chemical Industries Call for the Implementation of the Chemical Annex Under the EU/UK TCA
A united call from the UK and EU chemical and cosmetics industries has been issued today, setting out a clear and actionable case for implementing the Chemicals Annex under the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. In a period marked by geopolitical uncertainty and economic pressure, the Annex offers ...
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Position StatementUK REACH Briefing
The government has proposed extending the deadlines for businesses to submit dossiers for transitional registrations under UK REACH for the third time, putting the first deadline seven years later than originally proposed.
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Position StatementMoving Towards Animal-free Chemical Safety Assessment - Overarching Principles
Joint CTPA, CIA, IFRA, BCF and CBA paper: UK chemical sectors commit to moving away from the use of animals in the safety assessment of chemicals, and developing & implementing Non-Animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs).
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Position StatementReducing and Refining the Reliance on Animal Testing in Chemicals Regulation
Chemical regulations often require the testing of chemicals on vertebrates to ensure safety of consumers, workers, and the environment.
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Position StatementUK’s approach to managing chemicals of concern under REACH: Building on progress
The Chemical Industries Association highlights the UK’s independent approach to regulating chemicals of concern under UK REACH following its separation from EU REACH.
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Position StatementPersistent Chemicals
An important topic of focus within the current landscape of risk and hazard identification in chemicals is that of persistency.
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Position StatementGrouping of Chemical Substances
How to best group similar chemical substances is not a new topic. Both regulators and industry have been doing this as a matter of course for the purpose of managing them in the most effective way and also to protect animal welfare.
