ECHA elects new deputy chair of management board

ERJ staff report (LMH)

Helsinki - The European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) management board elected Martin Lynch to the position of deputy chair at its 21-22 June meeting.

Lynch, from Ireland, has been elected as deputy chair of the board for the next two years. The term of the current deputy chair, Italian board member Antonello Lapalorcia, finishes at the end of June.

At the meeting, ECHA also outlined selection criteria for stakeholder organisations, and introduced the adoption of the agency's multi-annual work programme for 2012-14.

ECHA said in a 23 June statement that in the future all accredited stakeholders wishing to participate in ECHA's committee or forum meetings need to sign up in the Register of Interest Representatives, maintained by the European Commission. Also, organisations representing sectors that do not have members in all, or the majority, of the EU member states are now eligible under certain conditions.

Regarding ECHA's multi-annual work programme, the agency will for the first time operate in all areas of its enlarged responsibilities in 2012-14. The planned activities cover registration, evaluation, authorisation, restriction, classification and labelling and also tasks related to new biocides and PIC (prior informed consent) regulations.

The next meeting of the board is scheduled for 29-30 Sept 2011.

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Press release from ECHA