BPR Improvement Options
Bureau KLB has taken stock of options to improve the Biocidal Product Regulation (BPR; EU 528/2012). These options have been collected in conversations with 20 different parties and individuals that are – or were – involved and that have – or had – a stake in the way the BPR is functioning.
The improvement options have been catalogued in order to allow all parties involved in the evaluation and the REFIT (or possible revision) of the BPR – in particular the Dutch Ministry of Infra-structure and Water Management, that commissioned the drafting of this report – to take a wide range of possible, and perhaps sometimes unconventional, measures into account for changing the BPR and for changing the roles and tasks of institutions involved.
All options must expressly be seen as thought and conversation starters. They sometimes contradict one another. Also, what may seem an improvement of the BPR to one, may look like an imminent disaster to someone else. Yet, these options are presented here side by side, for the reader to make its own appreciation.
