Amendments adopted by the European Parliament on 1 April 2025 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament ...

European Parliament 2024-2029 TEXTS ADOPTED P10_TA(2025)0046 Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks to the European Chemicals Agency Amendments adopted by the European Parliament on 1 April 2025 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks to the European Chemicals Agency (COM(2023)0781 – C9-0448/2023 – 2023/0454(COD))1 (Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading) Amendment 1 Proposal for a directive Recital 1 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (1) The Commission has, in its Communication ‘European Green Deal’2 , set an objective that chemical safety assessments should move towards a process of ‘one-substance, oneassessment’, calling for more transparent and simpler risk assessment processes in order to reduce the burden on all stakeholders, accelerate decision-making, as well as to increase consistency and predictability of scientific decisions and opinions. The Commission, in its Communication on Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability3 concludes that, in order to achieve that objective, part of the scientific and technical work on chemicals performed at Union level in support of Union legislation needs to be reattributed to the most suitable Union agencies. This (1) The Commission has, in its Communication ‘European Green Deal2 , set an objective that chemical...