05/12/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 4 December, Water Europe published nine recommendations “for a Europe free of toxic PFAS”. Faced with the risks posed to the environment by per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances, the organisation, which brings together a wide range of players involved in the water sector, is advocating, for example, for harmonising methods for measuring and analysing PFASs throughout the EU, introducing an obligation to provide information on the presence of PFASs, deploying the PFAS restriction process of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), requiring industry to limit its use of PFASs, establishing a health-based threshold for trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), for research into alternatives to PFAS to be funded, and for extended producer responsibility (EPR) to be introduced. The issue of PFASs should be addressed in particular in the Water Framework Directive (see EUROPE 13538/2) and in the forthcoming revision of the REACH regulation. (FS)