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January 14, 2026
Hazard classification and labelling of UVCB hydrocarbon substances in the European Economic Area – 2025
Report no. 1/26: This report provides a comprehensive list of Concawe’s recommended classifications and labelling for substances within its inventory. It reflects the most recent updates to Concawe...
January 13, 2026
Developing Ex-Vivo Approaches to Support PFAS Water Permitting and Effluent Monitoring for Industrial Site Application
This project aimed to improve understanding of PFAS bioavailability by developing biologically relevant partition coefficients for use in bioaccumulation modelling. Unlike many legacy contaminants, PF...
November 24, 2025
Expanding the Concawe REACH inventory: integration of renewable fuel substances
Concawe Review 33.2 Special REACH Edition - Article 5
The European Fuel Manufacturers Association (EFMA), through its scientific division Concawe, has responded to the evolving landscape of energy...
November 24, 2025
Challenges and key updates in the 2024 Concawe classification and labelling report
Concawe Review 33.2 Special REACH Edition - Article 4
The 2024 edition of the Concawe classification and labelling report delivers a substantial update to the hazard classification and labelling re...
November 24, 2025
New hazard classes: implications and regulatory framework
Concawe Review 33.2 Special REACH Edition - Article 3
Hazard assessment is a critical component of chemical management regulations, serving to identify substance properties that may pose risks to...
November 24, 2025
Understanding the reproductive toxicity of gas oil substances: new Repro 1B self-classification and updated risk assessment
Concawe Review 33.2 Special REACH Edition - Article 2
This article synthesises the scientific findings and REACH dossier developments concerning a reproductive and developmental toxicity assessment...
November 24, 2025
Cleaning up the data: Concawe’s first environmental update to the REACH dossiers since 2010
Concawe Review 33.2 Special REACH Edition - Article 1
In January 2025, Concawe distributed the Other Gas Oil (OGO) REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regis...
November 24, 2025
Concawe Review 33.2 – Special REACH Edition
Compliance with the requirements of REACH and the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation is essential for the licence to operate, and to be able to produce and sell petroleum product...
November 21, 2025
Review of carbon capture technologies and their commercial implementation
Report no.11/25: Carbon capture technologies are expected to play a key role in the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries such as oil refineries. Given the rapid evolution and diversification of...
November 6, 2025
Sustainable biofeedstock supply chains for advanced biofuels in Europe towards 2050
Report no. 10/25: Advanced biofuels are expected to play a key role in the decarbonisation of the European transport sector, particularly in hard-to-abate segments such as aviation, maritime transport...
October 15, 2025
Identified Uses of Hydrocarbon Substances – 2025 Dossier Update (Handbook no. 2025/01)
This updated handbook provides an overview of the use patterns of Hydrocarbon substances within the scope of REACH and related regulatory frameworks. It supports Concawe member companies in ensuring c...
September 22, 2025
Impact of the Belgian ‘Net-Zero’ Carbon Energy Projections on Air Quality and Climate
VITO/EnergyVille was commissioned by Concawe to conduct a comprehensive study on the effects of potential ‘Net-Zero’ pathways in Belgium on air pollutant emissions covered under National Emission...
August 26, 2025
Framework on Exposure-Based Adaptation of (human health) REACH hazard information requirements
Report no. 7/25: This report presents a framework for Exposure-Based Adaptation (EBA) of human health hazard information requirements under REACH, developed by Concawe’s Special Task Force on Human...
July 29, 2025
European downstream oil industry safety performance: Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2024
Report no. 9/25: The 2024 annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance presents work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own employees and contractors and process sa...
July 22, 2025
Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines – Statistical summary of reported spillages in 2023 and since 1971
Report no. 8/25: Concawe has collected 53 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines. At over 35,000 km the current inventory covered by the Concawe survey includes the majority of...
July 8, 2025
Innovative Techniques for Effluent Treatment for Specific Pollutants
Report no. 6/25: This report identifies twenty-seven (27) innovative techniques to treat a selected list of organics substances, inorganic substances and heavy metals, based on a literature review, co...
May 26, 2025
Technologies and fuels for decarbonising global aviation—the opportunities and challenges
This article provides a summary of a ‘deep dive’ study into the opportunities and challenges associated with the decarbonisation of the aviation industry. The study is part of Concawe’s Low Carb...
May 26, 2025
HDV CO₂ Comparator—a life-cycle assessment tool for heavy-duty vehicles in real-world conditions
This article summarises a study to create a life-cycle assessment tool for heavy-duty vehicles. Users are provided with an easy-to-use interactive tool on the Concawe website to compare the CO₂ in...
May 26, 2025
E-fuels: a techno-economic assessment of European domestic production and imports towards 2050
This updated study presents a twofold analysis — techno-environmental and economical — of the different e-fuels production pathways in Europe (northern, central and southern Europe), and the Middl...
May 26, 2025
New Concawe linear programming model
The production of liquid fuels in Europe is evolving to embrace the low-carbon economy transition as presented by the European Commission (‘Fit for 55’, ‘EU Green deal’, etc.). Therefore, a fl...
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