KEY INSIGHTS

EU is not retreating: Despite framing its agenda as simplification, the EU is rebuilding its environmental product regulation to be more digital, more enforceable and, in several areas, more consequential than before.

Environmental regulation offers a strategic opportunity: The EU is recasting product rules as industrial policy, with significant implications for supply chain intensive businesses, among others.

Greenwashing and PFAS demand action now: Tougher rules on environmental claims and accelerating litigation risk around forever chemicals mean that consumer-facing and industrials-exposed portfolio companies cannot afford to wait for regulatory certainty before acting.

Links:

A Simpler, Clearer and Better Enforced EU Rulebook - European Commission

Moving Parts: A Guide to the EU's Evolving Product Regulatory Landscape | Travers Smith

EU's Digital Product Passport: Advancing transparency and sustainability | data.europa.eu

Circular Economy - Environment - European Commission

Updates to EU CBAM: Balancing climate and competitiveness | Travers Smith

All news - ECHA