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On January 31, 2025, Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment published the Environment Protection and Management Act 1999 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2025 (S 85 of 2025) and the Environment Protection and Management (Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S 86 of 2025). Both of them will take effect on August 1, 2025.
LC-PFCAs and MCCPs are recommended to be listed into Annex A (Elimination) under the Stockholm Convention on POPs in 2025. As Singapore is a party to this international convention, the NEA proposes to pre-emptively impose regulatory controls on these chemicals. According to these two regulations, LC-PFCAs and MCCPs will be regulated as hazardous substances under the EPMA and EPM (HS) Regs. Companies will only be allowed to import, export, manufacture or sell these chemicals with a valid HS Licence from NEA, or store or use these chemicals with a valid HS Permit from NEA. Limited exemptions for certain uses that do not have viable alternatives may be provided after further assessment.
Furthermore, for several products containing mercury, their names and exlusions have been updated. And new items concerning mercury-added products have been added to the Second Schedule of the EMPA. The manufacture, import and export of most mercury-added products will not be allowed in Sigapore from August 1, 2025.
List of target chemcials and products can be accessed here.
