Addressing the above in a cost effective and efficient manner allows your company to utilize the resources within to create and enhance your 'environmental and social stories' in order to determine the right priorities.    It is often the better long term strategy to go beyond emissions and metrics and look for unconventional partnerships with your suppliers and customers. 

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Are your customers asking what REACH substances are found in your products?  Or is your company being asked to send conflict minerals and other responsible sourcing forms showing your due diligence of your supply chain.  Do you know that other regions, like the EU, have enacted legislation adding minerals and new conflict areas to be surveyed?  BCubed works with multiple industry leaders to  assure common data fields and similarities across formats so that it is possible to gather data from lower supplier tiers (i.e. raw material manufacturers).  Your company may benefit from the knowledge of an expert who has over 30 years experience with deep supply chains and environmental topics for the 'durable goods' industries.  Compliance, of course, but also anticipating next moves:

• California Prop 65

• ELV

• RoHS

• REACH

• EU Omnibus & Circular Economy

• EU Battery Regulation, Product Passport
• Conflict and Critical Materials
• Extended Producer Responsibility 

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Your Corporate Responsibility concerns

Today's Top 3

 

1.2026 EU Omnibus'pause'

The 2023 European Green Deal Industrial Plan was announced by President von der Leyen in her speech at to the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2023 as the initiative for the EU to sharpen its competitive edge through clean-tech investment and continue leading on the path to climate neutrality.

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The 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan drove the SCiP database along with other strategic initiatives that will keep companies hopping for the next 10 years.  The EU adopted Circular Economy Action Plan includes measures along the entire life cycle of products. 

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The 2026 EU rollout for several

 

EU "Omnibus" simplification packages

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were designed to save the EU economy

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billions in administrative costs,

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scaling back reporting requirements. 

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Particularly for CSRD and CSDDD.

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2.EU and US Conflict Minerals in place, US passes Uyghur Forced Labor Law, and the EU Battery Regulation introduces a Digital Product Passport!

On January 24, 2017, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee approved the text of the conflict minerals regulation  The legislation came into force January 1, 2021 aimed at raw material importers.    The UFLPA passed in Dec 2022 and established a rebuttable presumption that goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in XUAR or by an entity on the UFLPA Entity List are prohibited from U.S. importation.             EU Battery Regulation passed in 2023 and along with the Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandate comprehensive sustainability, safety, and supply chain transparency for batteries placed on the EU market.  Starting February 18, 2027, all electric vehicle (EV) batteries, Light Means of Transport (LMT) batteries, and industrial batteries with a capacity over 2 kWh must possess an active Digital Battery Passport

 

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3.Effective strategies for assessing up-coming substance/material bans

Industry substance lists and other items like above will drive requirements down the supply chain for assessing, substituting, and reporting of hazardous substances found in products and components.

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