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Circular Economy video: The Sustainable Life of Lead Batteries
A new video highlighting the sustainable life of Europe's lead batteries was launched at the International Lead Association's Pb2025 conference in Amsterdam. The video - the latest addition to the ILA-CBI EU Advocacy Toolkit - demonstrates how the lead battery value...
Lead REACH Consortium contributes to European Advocacy Toolkit
An EU Advocacy Toolkit, a comprehensive resource designed to support advocacy and public affairs activities promoting the benefits and strategic importance of lead and lead batteries in Europe, has been launched by the International Lead Association (ILA) and the...
Lead Matters: The Lead REACH Consortium highlights the essential role of lead in Europe
Thanks to a unique combination of properties, and performance characteristics that span energy efficiency, carbon footprint, socio-economics, raw material security, as well as technical function, lead is the only suitable material in the many applications and...
A new intelligent approach to regulating chemicals
In January 2020, the European Commission's new work programme included a priority under the European Green Deal – its intention to launch a chemicals strategy for sustainability. On 27 May 2020, the European Commission published an adjusted work programme, in which a...
OECD 243: Challenging the premise of lead sensitivity to the snail, L. stagnalis
A new study from ILA and the Lead REACH Consortium has found L. stagnalis is significantly less sensitive to lead than previously suggested. The study was commissioned by the Lead REACH Consortium to investigate the effects of prolonged exposure to lead on the...
Socrates and the philosophy of the circular economy
THE EU has published an update on its progress towards becoming a truly circular economy, and it reads a bit like this: a good start, but there’s a long way to go. Climate change and the pressure to achieve lower carbon economies and societies is driving the need to...
Chemicals registration information improved through industry input
The Lead REACH Consortium has signed a co-operation deal with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), designed to speed up and improve the information available on registered substances. The Metals and Inorganics Sectorial Approach (MISA) is a voluntary initiative...
EU scheme to ban use of lead risks short-circuiting Europe’s battery revolution
A decision announced by the European Chemicals Agency on 27 June to add lead metal to the EU REACH candidate list of substances requiring authorisation flies in the face of the battery action plan unveiled just weeks ago by the EU Commission, industry has warned. Lead...
New restrictions and labelling requirements affect lead and lead-containing mixtures from March 1, 2018
From 1 March 2018, the harmonised classification and labelling (CLH) for lead metal (9th ATP to CLP) will formally apply. From this date, lead metal placed on the market across the EU or EEA either as a substance on its own or in a mixture – including in solders and...
Lead and lead battery industry call for urgent EU review on worker exposure limits
The International Lead Association (ILA) and EUROBAT have called on the EU to make a health-based review of occupational exposure limits (OEL) for lead a priority as a first step towards lowering the existing EU-wide binding limit. In a letter to the Head of Safety...