Advocacy
The Lead REACH Consortium advocates proportionate regulation which is based on sound science and is supportive of responsible, sustainable production and use of lead and its substances.
For more information on our current advocacy activities, please contact us.
Slidedecks and other toolkit materials
- EU Advocacy master slidedeck (version 1, April 2025): Available via WeTransfer: EU Advocacy Toolkit
-
Lead Matters to Europe: Understanding lead’s contribution to the EU’s economic success – 2-page e-leaflet (July 2025)
Position statements and leaflets
- ILA Briefing Note: Internally Lead Sheathed Cables and EU REACH
- Guidance on classification for Transport – lead metal ingots
- Joint ILA-Pb REACH Consortium Open Statement following ECHA’s 11th Recommendation for Authorisation, co-signed by more than 40 organisations
- Pb metal and ECHA’s draft 11th recommendation: Position statement
- Leaflet: Lead: a key enabler of the Circular Economy
- Review of the Binding EU Occupational Exposure Limits for Lead must be a priority for DG Employment
- Cross-industry recommendations for better regulation in chemicals management
- Joint Lead REACH Consortium-EUROBAT advocacy pack:
- Briefing Note: Exemptions from Authorisation and REACH Article 58(2) in the context of lead compounds recommended for Authorisation
- Shot: status as an article
Public consultations
- Public consultation on Sweden’s proposal to include Pb metal on the REACH Candidate List: Consortium response
- Responses to the public consultation on ECHA’s draft 7th recommendation for Authorisation:
- Responses to the public consultation on ECHA’s draft 9th recommendation for Authorisation: