EU - Proposes to Amend the Limits for PFOS and Remove the Exemptions

​Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 implements the EU’s commitments under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and its derivatives are listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021. This draft proposal would reduce the maximum PFOS concentration allowed as unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and articles as follows:

• ​PFOS or any of its salts: < 0.025 mg/kg
  
• PFOS-related compounds: < 1 mg/kg (sum)
  

and remove the last specific exemption allowed in the EU (use as mist suppressant for non-decorative hard chromium (VI) plating in closed loop systems)​ since it is no longer needed.​

The public consultation is open 4 weeks until January 1, 2024.