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News Release from: BSEF
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Report updates news on voluntary
programme
The brominated flame retardant industry has launched the first annual progress report for its Voluntary Emissions Control Action Programme.
The brominated flame retardant industry has launched the first annual progress report for its Voluntary Emissions Control Action Programme (VECAP) This report aims to introduce VECAP to a wide range of audiences, including regulatory authorities, user industries and the general public, and is designed to provide transparent and concise information on the progress of the VECAP in Europe
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 30 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The focus of the VECAP is currently on the flame retardant Deca-BDE, but the industry intends to build on the experience gained with this substance and expand VECAP-type programmes to other brominated flame retardants and outside Europe.
The programme was initiated by the industry in 2004 following conclusion of a 10-year EU risk assessment of Deca-BDE.
Though the risk assessment concluded that no additional risk reductions measures were required, the industry recognised that its own environmental monitoring had demonstrated the potential for low but increasing levels of Deca-BDE near industrial user sites.
VECAP, combined with an industry commitment to carry out a 10-year programme of environmental monitoring, represents the brominated flame retardant industry's commitment to reduce to the greatest degree practical the potential for Deca-BDE emissions to the environment.
As part of a standard annual review, national officials from the European Union assessed progress on Deca-BDE in a meeting on 24th May in Vienna.
During that meeting, there was significant support for this industry's voluntary emissions reduction programme and the progress achieved to date.
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