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NEW CEPE & EuPIA WORKPLACES
Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2014
The CEPE and EuPIA members portals, CEPE Workplace and
EuPIA workplace, were given an important facelift two weeks
ago.
In addition to a more modern look, the new platform offers
many more new functionalities like uploading and downloading
whole folders, access to the list of participants of the working
groups and a clearer search engine.
It might however be that you encounter some problems due to
“childhood illnesses” of the system. If this is the case, please do
not hesitate to send a message with a clear explanation of your
problem to v.declercq@cepe.org.
If you are asked to enter a user name and password to access
the CEPE workplace, which is a bug of the system, please clear
the cache of your computer and try again. This should solve the
problem.
To clear the cache : click simultaneously on SHIFT / CONTROL
/ DELETE and click on “delete” on the menu when prompted.
Antifouling Working Group, 6 & 7 October
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The antifouling groups discussed ongoing issues related to
product approvals and risk assessments. Several uncertainties
remain such as the need for a MAMPEC update, substances of
concern, cumulative risk assessment, dermal penetration or the
possibility of waiving studies. This has significant influence for
the future approval of anti-fouling paints. Hence the national
advocacy campaign will soon start to explain to national bodies
the negative impact their current approach would have on their
marine industry. Further work will be undertaken to identify all
the safety factors used from the active substance level to the
product level to highlight the overly conservative approach in
their risk assessment.’
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Biocide Users Task Force, 8 October
The Biocide User TF invited two guests to make presentations.
The first was a Professor of the Copenhagen University
(Jeanne Duus Johansen) toxicological expert in sensitization
issues on MIT, and the second was a biocide supplier (Nathalie
Hanon from Troy) who was asking for CEPE’s input to refine
the environmental risk assessment of dry-film preservatives.
The group reviewed the CEPE status of the voluntary initiative
to communicate on the presence of MIT <100 ppm and agreed
to communicate very soon in order to ensure a quick implementation within our industry.
The latest on some biocide topics of interest such as the labelling of treated articles and the advocacy actions for in-can
preservation were reviewed.
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Marine Coatings EU Sector Group, 8 October
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The Sector group was updated on the latest developments on
Anti-Fouling and discussed the situation on ‘Treated Article’. A
CEPE guidance will be written for this.
The AF campaign towards national authorities concerning the
methods for risk assessment will now officially start.
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EuPIA Good Manufacturing Practices Operational Working
Group, 8 October
The operational WG continued working on the draft of the new
EuPIA GMP.
Topic: Differentiation of requirements for DFC and NON-DFC
inks
The differentiation has mainly been implemented via NOTES
and EXAMPLES
The chapters
 Establishments
 Equipment
 Production provisions
 Quality Control
 Retention samples
 Control of monitoring and measurement equipment
 Internal audit
have been reviewed.
Printing Ink for Food Packaging, 14 & 15 October
The EuPIA Technical Committee PIFOOD held its final meeting
of 2014 in Brussels and agreed next steps on the following key
items, among others:
 Advocacy on the consequences of the draft German Inks
Ordinance, and prioritisation of substances for evaluation in
the event that all dossiers cannot be processed by the end
of the proposed transitional period
 Implementation of an updated version of the EuPIA Statement
of Composition
 Formation of a working group of analytical experts, to start
work early in 2015
The committee also noted good progress by its working groups
on Good Manufacturing Practice, which will deliver a new
guideline in early 2015. Many of EuPIA’s key documents on
food packaging will be reviewed and revised to reflect the new
GMP guidance.
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Energy Curing Working Group, 16 October
ECWG reviewed the progress of dossier preparation for the five
top priority REACH Tier 2 acrylate monomers, commodity and
non-commodity photoinitiators and the stabiliser MEHQ. For
acrylates the PARAD Consortium has been diverted onto
urgent work concerning TMPTA, but for photoinitiators dossier
preparation and submission (to German BfR and Swiss FSVO)
are progressing well. For MEHQ the support of the PARAD
Consortium will be enlisted since they would be impacted by
non-inclusion in positive lists. ECWG however noted the threat
posed by the slow rate of dossier evaluation by authorities;
action is to be taken on this by the parent PIFOOD committee.
In the short term ECWG plans to initiate some blind round robin
testing on the priority acrylates to determine the spread of
analytical results between laboratories (commercial, customers
and in-house).
The regulatory status of some key substances was reviewed
and the latest advice clarified. The group also noted a pending
application for extension of the RoHS exemption for mercury
lamps; at the appropriate time ECWG will decide whether to
react in support of this application.
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Decorative EU Sector Group on MIT, 20 October
The Deco SG group held a conference call to discuss the setting of a lower limit for the voluntary communication of the
presence of the in-can preservative MIT and decided to select
the 15 ppm limit for the time being, although some members will
start already from 1 ppm.
EuPIA European Technical committee, 21 & 22 October
The EuPIA Technical Committee held its autumn meeting. Key
outcomes were, among others:
 The progress of NVC substitution was reviewed and an
update to the customer information note/Exclusion List
agreed, concerning an extended deadline and an exemption
 A recommendation will be prepared on mentioning biocides in
technical data sheets
 Model ink formulations were agreed for the revised deinkability scorecard
 Support for CEPI was proposed on Systematic Fibre Stewardship
 The EuPIA recommendation on cosmetic packaging was
endorsed
 RadTech will be approached concerning harmonisation of
photoinitiator classifications
 EuPIA will provide support to Intergraf where necessary in
revision of the BREF on surface treatment with solvents.
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Intumescent Coatings Technical Committee, 23 October
The Intumescent Coatings Technical Committee met on 23
October 2014 and covered, amongst other items:
 the Formal Vote on the voluntary product standard for intumescent coatings, FprEN 16623
 progress on the mandate for a harmonised standard for
intumescent coatings, and agreement on the need to extend
the scope to include substrates in addition to steel-based
ones
 noting the Applicator Guidance Working Group was in the
process of finalising the text of the guidance
 agreeing on the content and format of communications to
non-member manufacturers and to certification bodies on
CEPE’s guidance on fire test regimes
 establishing a testing programme to compare accelerated
testing with real-time exposures for the environment categories, ahead of the mandate
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