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The European Commission has been performing a review of its Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial (2011/696/EU). It has now launched a targeted stakeholder consultation to update, test and verify the preliminary findings of this review. Further evidence and feedback will be gathered from a wide range of stakeholders who have a role in application […]

On 19th March 2021, the DG Research & Innovation department of the European Commission hosted virtually the “1st Stakeholders’ workshop on Safe and Sustainable-by-Design criteria”. The workshop set the first steps towards the criteria definition, concept and planning and brought lots of information about the future process to further elaborate on the SSbD concept in […]

The European Observatory of Nanomaterials (EUON)  has recently published a new tender call for studies on knowledge gaps on nanomaterials that are of interest to the general public and the research community. Up to three studies are conducted annually and interested parties are invited to submit their proposals by 19 April 2021. Are you an […]

Building on the hugely successful set of webinars and online training events in 2020, the EU H2020 project NanoCommons  is running a number of virtual training events in 2021. The formats will vary from webinar style presentations to more hands-on guided activities where the NanoCommons tools and services are presented and participants have the opportunity […]

Within the EU regulatory framework there are quite a number of different definitions for the term “nanomaterial”. Each of them strongly depends on the field of material application and the respective regulatory legislation. Nice compilation. Read the full text here: https://necotox.de/en/eu-definitions-for-nanomaterial/