A Note for discussion with Competent Authorities for Biocidal Products: Nano-forms of active substances – Governance under the Biocidal Products Regulation, issued by the DG Environment of the European Commission

A Note for discussion with Competent Authorities for Biocidal Products: Nano-forms of active substances – Governance under the Biocidal Products Regulation has been issued by the DG Environment of the European Commission.

Its purpose is to start the discussion with Member States on the legal status under the new Biocidal Products Regulation ('BPR') of nano-forms of active substances which will be either included in the biocides review programme or already included in Annex I to the Biocidal Products Directive 98/8/EC ('BPD') on the day when BPR enters into application. It illustrates the kind of questions industry has identified in this respect. The question of information requirements for nanomaterials is addressed in the BPR implementing tasks Nr 28 and 29 (with reference to the ongoing work in the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN)), and is therefore not addressed in this note.