FEICA welcomes the Circular Economy Act as a key opportunity to support Europe’s transition to a resource‑efficient economy and strengthen the Single Market. It stresses the essential role of adhesives and sealants in enabling durability, repair, reuse and high‑quality recycling across value chains. FEICA calls for a harmonised EU‑wide legal basis under Article 114 to avoid fragmentation, recognition of mass balance accounting to enable circular and defossilised materials, technology‑ or feedstock‑neutral targets based on life‑cycle performance, and alignment across EPR schemes, ecodesign rules and Digital Product Passports to ensure legal certainty, scalability and investment readiness.

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Updated FEICA Guidance on the Restriction of Synthetic Polymer Microparticles 

FEICA published the first version of a Guidance on the restriction of Synthetic Polymer Microparticles (SPM)  in November 2023 to support members in understanding and implementing the new requirements introduced under Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 (REACH Annex XVII, Entry 78). Based on new information from ECHA and the European Commission, the FEICA Guidance has been updated.

FEICA’s full work on Synthetic Polymer Microparticles (SPM):

• FEICA Guidance on Restriction of Synthetic Polymers
• Pictograms for SPM
• E-Calc: SPM Calculation Tool + E-Calc_SPM concept
• Presentation: SPM Tonnages & E-Calc Concept (MARII)
• FEICA Webinar Recording – REACH Restriction on SPM
• FEICA Webinar slides

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