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Drawing the Red Line: Vietnam’s Tightening Grip on Toxic Chemicals Vietnam’s new Law on Chemicals 2025, effective January 1, 2026, tightens control over toxic substances with licensing, buyer verification, and digital traceability, making non-compliant chemical transactions potentially subject to criminal liability.

Jun 16, 2026

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New Downloadable Spreadsheet of Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals (AIIC) is Available New downloadable version of the Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals is available.

Jun 15, 2026

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South Korea to Update Chemical Classification and Labeling Regulations On June 12, 2026, South Korea’s National Institute of Chemical Safety (NICS) issued a notice proposing partial amendments to the Regulations on the Classification and Labeling of Chemical Substances. This proposed update, aligned with the Act on the Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances (K-REACH), aims to include hazard classification information for certain chemical substances that are to be designated as hazardous substances and revise existing entries based on hazard assessment results.

Jun 15, 2026

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ECHA to Disclose Notifier Names in C&L Inventory From July 2026 Recently, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that it will begin publishing the names of companies that have submitted notifications to the Classification and Labelling (C&L) Inventory, effective July 1, 2026.

Jun 15, 2026

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South Korea to Designate 38 Chemicals as Hazardous Substances On June 12, 2026, South Korea’s National Institute of Chemical Safety (NICS) opened a public consultation on the draft amendments to the List of Substances Acutely Hazardous to Human Health, Substances Chronically Hazardous to Human Health, and Substances Hazardous to the Environment (hereinafter referred to as the List).

Jun 15, 2026

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  Vietnam Law on Chemicals (69/2025/QH15)
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China Overhauls New Chemical Registration Measures China’s MEE will substantially revise the new chemical registration measures to align with the Ecological and Environmental Code, tightening eligibility to domestic manufacturers/importers, restructuring tonnage-based registration types, and significantly increasing penalties.

Jun 12, 2026

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New Zealand EPA Accelerates Hazardous Substances Decisions On June 3, 2026, the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) announced a sustained increase in hazardous substances decisions for the third quarter of the 2025–2026 financial year, alongside a continuous decline in its assessment queue.

Jun 11, 2026

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UK Expands Controls for Drug Precursor Chemicals On 10 June 2026, the UK government issued Circular 003/2026, announcing regulatory changes to control a broader set of drug precursor chemicals (DPCs) in Great Britain and to extend UK-wide criminal offences to additional substances.

Jun 11, 2026

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Japan Partially Revises Q&A on the Positive List System for FCM Clarifying the interior classifications of freezers and refrigerators in Q12 helps both appliance and resin manufacturers determine the applicable scope. Meanwhile, deleting and transferring Q40 centralizes recycling guidelines for easier management.

Jun 11, 2026

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Panama to Adopt UN GHS Rev.7 for Chemical Hazard Communication On June 10, 2026, Panama’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MICI) and the Directorate General of Standards and Industrial Technology (DGNTI) notified the WTO of a draft Technical Regulation (DGNTI XX-2026), proposing to implement UN GHS Rev. 7 to standardize chemical hazard classification, labeling, and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) within the national territory.

Jun 11, 2026

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