Legislative trends

A government relations office s system for identifying emeiging regulatory or legislative trends... 

Analysis and review of pending regulations applicable to fragrances, as well as legislative trends in related areas such as cosmetics, intellectual property, chemicals, and occupational health and safety. 

But the formal creation of a new legislative framework is only a first step defining how to apply new laws — as well as allocating the funds and human resources necessary to translate these principles into reality and to monitor their implementation — remain major challenges. In some cases, further analysis of legislative trends and increased cooperation will be necessary to avoid discrepancies in the policies of the EU Member States and the candidate countries. 

In most industrial sectors there is a new legislative trend that calls for the increased use of alternative approaches in regulatory safety assessment. Such driving forces strive to substitute conventional animal-based approaches with a different format of decisionmaking combining in vitro and in silico approaches using the up-to-date scientific and technological developments in the alternative methods of the twenty-first century. 

Pfalzer, H. (1993) Safety aspects and legislation trends. In Application Technology for Crop Protection, G.A. Matthews and E.C. Hislop (ed.), CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 13-33. 

Wilson, Legislation trends and regulations on lead releases into the environment etc , from ILZIC Conference, 1991 (courtesy of LDA) p 44. 

Manchester, 17th-21st June 1996, paper 75. 012 NITROSAMINES IN RUBBER - LEGISLATIVE TRENDS... 

This chapter will give an overview of recent international trends and initiatives regarding chemicals in leather and articles containing leather. That includes the identification of chemicals in the produced leather that are common on restricted substance lists and present ongoing recent initiatives to control the impact from these chemicals including both legislative measures and initiatives from customers such as international brands or purchasing sectors and different eco-labels. 

Public perception and the resulting trends in legislation have led manufacturers of plastics and plastic products to realize that they either have to act and get involved with the issue or be prepared to shoulder much of the blame for the solid waste crisis and face tremendous restrictions on their industry. The companies initial responses included the formation of both internal divisions and cooperative industry associations to approach the issues of plastics recycling and solid waste management. 

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