Policy ambitions and strategies

IRISS responds to meet the EU Green Deal, EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Here you find relevant EU policy ambitions and strategies and links to other important documents, which form the basis of IRISS’ work.

EU policy ambitions and strategies

• EU Green Deal External link, opens in new window.
• EU Zero Pollution Action Plan (including zero waste) External link, opens in new window.
• EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, towards a toxic free environment External link, opens in new window.
• EU Circular Economy Action Plan External link, opens in new window.
• EU RTD (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation is a Directorate-General of the European Commission) Strategic Research and Innovation Plan (SRIP, 2022) External link, opens in new window.

Safety

• REACH wetgeving External link, opens in new window. plus new developmenst such as the REACH restrictions roadmap External link, opens in new window., new classification and labelling (CLP) for EDs External link, opens in new window. and integration of REACH with de product environmental footprint External link, opens in new window.
• EFSA guidance en guidelines External link, opens in new window.
• OECD guidelines en guidance External link, opens in new window.

Sustainability and Circularity

• Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) External link, opens in new window.
• Sustainable Product Initiative External link, opens in new window.
• Product Environmental Footprint External link, opens in new window.
• Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive External link, opens in new window.

Innovation, Industry and Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design

• Joint Research Centre Technical Report: Safe and Sustainable by Design chemicals and materials: Framework for the definition of criteria and evaluation procedure for chemicals and materials (2022) External link.
• Safe Innovation Approach (OECD WPMN) External link.
• Materials 2030 Roadmap External link, opens in new window. and
  Advanced Materials 2030 Manifesto External link, opens in new window.
• Cefic European Chemical Industry Council, SSbD A Transformative Power; Guidance on SSbD (2022) External link, opens in new window.;
  Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design: Boosting innovation and growth withing the European Chemical industry (2021) External link, opens in new window.;
  Safe and Sustainable-by-Design is an opportunity that gives the chemical industry direction External link.
• ChemSec (International Chemical Secretariaat): Safe and Sustainable by Design Chemicals (2021) External link, opens in new window.
  
• Designing safe and sustainable products requires a new approach for chemicals (2021) External link, opens in new window.