The communication of the Commission of 11 December 2019 on the European Green Deal sets high ambitions for enabling the transition towards a toxic-free environment and zero pollution. The strategy set out in the communication of the Commission of 14 October 2020 entitled Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment (the Strategy) is a crucial step towards achieving zero-pollution and introduces the one substance, one assessment approach, which aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, coherence and transparency of safety assessments of chemicals across Union legal acts. According to the Strategy, safe and sustainable by design criteria should be developed to enable the production and use of chemicals that are safe and sustainable throughout their entire lifecycle. The Strategy also states that the interaction between scientific developments and policy-making should be strengthened by means of an early warning system for chemicals and groups of chemicals, to ensure that Union policies address emerging chemical risks as soon as they are identified by monitoring and research, and that a framework of indicators should be developed to monitor the drivers and impacts of chemical pollution and to measure the effectiveness of Union law on chemicals. This Regulation aims to implement those objectives.
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