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California Section 01350: Method for Testing and Evaluation Version 1.2 published
In January 2017 California Department of Public Health published version “Standard Method for the Testing and Evaluation of Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions from Indoor Sources using Environmental Chambers Version 1.2”.
SCS standards integrated by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Beginning of 2017 the US American Environmental Protection Agency integrated the indoor air and pollutant emissions label of SCS Global Services (SCS) into the guidelines and recommendations of requirements for public procurement on an US federal level.
Federal cabinet agrees to moratorium of disposal of isolation materials containing HBCD
As the Federal Minstry for the Environment, Nature Conversation, Building and Nuclear Safety announced end of December 2016 in a press release the federal cabinet agreed to a one-year moratorium of disposal of isolation materials containing HBCD.
German Institute for Structural Engineering: publication of market surveillance programme for harmonised construction products
Market surveillance, German Institute for Structural Engineering (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik – DIBt)’s new field of activity, having already published FAQs concerning the EU construction products regulation and market surveillance, now published a market surveillance programme (MS programme) for harmonice construction products to be realised in 2017.
DIBt: FAQs on the EU Construction Products Regulation
The market surveillance authorities of the Länder (federal states) and German Institute for Structural Engineering (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik – DIBt) have established a common FAQ catalogue with regard to individual provisions of the EU CPR.
DIBt: Supplement to the DIBt comments dated 13 April 2015 and 17 December 2015 concerning CJEU judgment of 16 October 2014
On Aug 18, 2016, German Institute for Structural Engineering (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik – DIBt) published a aupplement to its comments dated 13 April 2015 and 17 December 2015 concerning CJEU judgment of 16 October 2014 on the legal situation of national technical approvals in Germany respectively the Ü-mark.
