European Framework Regulation

The Framework Regulation is adopted by the European Parliament and the Council while specific Directives and Regulations are adopted by the Commission after consultation with Member States in the Standing Committee of the food chain and animal health. The Commission can adopt only those proposals that gain a qualified majority of Member States in the Standing Committee. 

The basic rule in the Community food legislation specifies that only safe food shall be placed on the market (General Food Law Art. 14). Consequently food contact materials shall not transfer their substance into the food in concentrations that can endanger human health (Art. 3 Framework Regulation). The main players to ensure safety as regards food contact materials are the packaging industry, the food industry, competent authorities in the Member States, and the European Commission. 

Framework Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, Official Journal of the European Union, Vol. 47, 13 November 2004 (L338/4). 

In Europe aids to polymerisation are not yet regulated on a European wide basis and as such are covered by the Framework Regulation 1935/2004, by... 

Some interesting developments in Europe have necessitated an open dialog on the U.S. position in the development of international standards. This has implications both technically and politically, and relates to proposed European-wide regulations which are likely to be proposed as global regulations, despite lack of U.S. involvement in setting the framework. 

These Regulations give effect to the European Framework Directive on health and safety. They supplement the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974 and specify a range of management issues, most of which must be carried out in all workplaces. The aim is to map out the organization of precautionary measures in a systematic way, and to make sure that all staff are familiar with the measures and their own responsibilities. 

The questionnaire is based in the prevention cycle defined in The European Framework Directive on Safety and Health at Work (Directive 89/391 EEC) adopted in 1989, which is the basis of the regulation of safety obligations for enterprises (see Fig. 1). 

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSW) originally arrived on UK statute books in 1992 as part of the requirements to implement the European Framework Directive of 1989. 

ECHA points out that some materials currently considered as waste might in future be considered to have ceased to be waste [15]. These materials will then be out of the scope of waste legislation, and - if not covered by an exemption - will potentially fall under REACH. Clarification of end-of-waste criteria is a matter for waste legislation. In accordance with the general principle of subsidiarity of the European Union law, and following the revised Waste Framework Directive, Member States may decide case by case whether certain waste has ceased to be waste, where end-of-waste criteria have not been set at Community level. Member States have already worked for use of this regulation, like, e.g., the Waste Quality Protocol in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland [16]. 

Industry is obligated to submit mandatory dossiers to the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) registry, an environmental protection regulation within the framework of the European Union (EU), and are to include a GHS aquatic hazard classification proposal. Both REACH and the GHS have significant implications for environmental protection... 

HarmonHy (2006). HarmonHy Harmonization of Regulations, Codes and Standards for a Sustainable Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology. Support Action funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. www.harmonhy.com. 

The European Community has developed a very comprehensive regulatory framework, which regulates the marketing and use of PPPs and their residues in food (EU 2006d,f). Essentially, PPPs are the pesticides, e.g., fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides, aimed at protecting plants. 

The natural gas sector has been the object of new regulations at national and community level within the framework of the sector s liberalisation policies and of the creation of a sole European market for natural gas. 

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