The second meeting of the High Level Roundtable on the implementation of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability was held online on 25 November 2021. Floris Rutjes, EuChemS President, in his capacity as EuChemS’ representative within this expert group attended this meeting, together with Nineta Hrastelj, EuChemS Secretary General, as a Sherpa (substitute).

The topic of the meeting was enforcement aspect of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.

Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, chaired this meeting and provided information regarding the state of the implementation of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. He also thanked all stakeholders, especially the Sherpas, for their work in preparing this meeting and contributing actively to the debate around the Strategy.

The recording of this meeting can be watched here.

The third meeting of the High Level Roundtable on the implementation of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability is scheduled to be held in-person in Brussels (Belgium) in May 2021.

As a reminder, the European Chemical Society, EuChemS, has been invited to the expert group “High Level Roundtable on the implementation of the Chemicals Strategy” set up by the DG Environment of the European Commission. EuChemS has set up an internal expert group to discuss topics regarding the implementation of the Chemicals Strategy and to propose a diversity of perspectives from EuChemS wide network to the European Commission.