APPLiA (Home Appliance Europe) fully supports the ambition of the new EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability within the EU Green Deal framework. Harmonising, simplifying and strengthening EU rules on chemicals will help build a coherent system to risk-manage chemicals in the Union and clarify some existing legislative gaps. “At the crossroads between chemical, product and waste policies, dealing with legacy substances will remain the most critical challenge – commented Paolo Falcioni, APPLiA’s Director General – and we will need clear guidance on how to manage them in the future”. “In our position paper – Falcioni added – we have laid out our recommendations on the Chemicals Strategy with an eye to the entire EU policy framework for a Circular Economy, where also material efficiency, energy efficiency, citizen welfare, consumer choice and affordability must be taken into account”. Coming to a possible EU Dataspace – APPLiA explains – only information that can be used for concrete measures should be stored and made accessible to relevant target-users. Here, the potential integration of existing databases should be further investigated. Most importantly, existing tools such as the i4R platform should lead by example in making data available for up and downstream communication flows to the benefit of supply chain actors.
