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Tag: Standardisation
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The standards paywall: two rulings, and the question of who pays for the law
Two CJEU rulings established that technical standards which function as law must be freely accessible. What the Court decided, what it means for CEN/CENELEC, and who finances standards now.
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Total fluorine: a pragmatic PFAS screen that cannot tell you what it found
Total fluorine measures every fluorine atom in a sample, organic or inorganic. It is fast, cheap and captures unknown PFAS, but minerals, fillers and groundwater all contain fluoride, and the…
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Material identification codes: what they mean, what they do not, and how the PPWR changes them
Material identification codes such as PET 1, PAP 21 and ALU 41 state what packaging is made from: not whether it is recyclable. An explanation of the system under Commission…