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Ref. Ares(2020)2896947 - 04/06/2020
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FW: EDC-Free Europe letter re. endocrine disrupting 
chemicals & Chemicals Strategy for Sustainabiityactions 
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2020 06 04 EDC Free Europe meeting request EDCs and 
Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.pdf 
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Subject: EDC-Free Europe letter re. endocrine disrupting chemicals & Chemicals Strategy for 
Sustainabiityactions 
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Re. EDC-Free Europe - meeting request re. endocrine disrupting chemicals & Chemicals 
Strategy for Sustainability  
Please find attached a letter with a meeting request from the EDC-Free Europe 
coalition
 to the attention of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevius, cc Vice President 
Frans Timmermans and Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, regarding the forthcoming 
Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and endocrine disrupting chemicals.
EDC-Free Europe is a coalition of public interest groups representing more than 
70 environmental, health, women’s and consumer groups across Europe who 
share a concern about hormone disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and their impact on 
our health and wildlife. Campaign partners include trade unions, consumers, 
public health and healthcare professionals, advocates for cancer prevention, 
environmentalists and women’s groups. Website: http://www.edc-free-
europe.org/ The secretariat is hosted by HEAL Transparency Register number: 00723343929-
96
With best regards
 EDC-Free Europe Campaign Coordinator
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secretariat is hosted by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL).




Ref. Ares(2020)2896947 - 04/06/2020
 
Dear Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius  
CC: Vice President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Stella Kyriakides   
4 June 2020 
Re: Meeting request on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and EC Chemicals Strategy for 
Sustainability 
We are writing to you on behalf of the EDC-Free Europe [1], a coalition of public interest 
groups representing more than 70 environmental, health, women’s and consumer groups 
across Europe who share a concern about hormone-disrupting chemicals and their 
impact on our health and wildlife. 
As part of our feedback to the Roadmap on Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, we 
would be grateful to have the opportunity to have a virtual meeting with you to share our 
views on what we consider to be essential benchmarks for endocrine disrupting chemicals 
(EDCs) to be addressed in this framework.  
We would like to get the assurance that the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability will be 
the tool to finally deliver a comprehensive action plan on EDCs, with immediate actions 
and mid-term-measures to effectively minimise people's exposure to EDCs without further 
delay, a commitment on hold since it was announced in 2013 with the 7th EAP. 
The November 2018 EC Communication “Towards a Comprehensive EU framework on 
endocrine disruptors (ED)” laid out some key principles and goals for the “EU strategic 
approach on EDCs”, but it did not include a real action plan with specific measures and 
timelines on how to reach these objectives.  
A report from leading scientists on endocrine science presented to the European 
Parliament in April 2019 stressed again that the EU population is widely exposed to known 
and suspected EDCs [3] with annual costs related to exposure to EDCs estimated to be 
163 billion Euros [4]. 
In our meeting with you, we would like in particular to exchange views on proposals to: 
-  Effectively catch up with the state of knowledge on EDCs and develop 
a renewed legislative framework allowing for an horizontal approach to 
 

 
identify and regulate EDCs in all sectors in order to effectively deliver on the 
zero pollution ambition for exposure to EDCs in all sectors; 
-  Implement with ambition current provisions in sectoral legislation 
addressing EDCs, in particular with REACH, the Pesticides & Biocides 
Regulations, the Cosmetics Regulation, giving full force to the precautionary 
principle; 
-  Establish an EU-list of known and suspected EDCs to prioritise rapid 
action to control their use, improve transparency and awareness of supply 
chains and the public; 
-  Protect us from exposure to chemical mixture including EDCs, to which 
we are all exposed daily;  
-  Enhance public awareness of EDCs, including immediate measures of 
information and prevention based on all the information already available. 
These requests build on EDC-Free Europe eight demands for an EU EDC strategy  and 
are complementary to the three zero pollution goals in the sphere of chemicals outlined 
in the joint letter from twenty five health and environment NGOs including several 
members of the EDC-Free Europe Coalition: “A chemicals strategy as part of the 
European Green Deal: time to deliver
” (8 November 2019) [4]   
In the absence of improved EU regulations on EDCs and better implementation of current 
ones, people remain exposed every day to these chemicals through food contact 
materials, toys, personal care products, furniture, food, water, air pollution, with 
consequences also for the generations to come.  
Our coalition counts on seeing and contributing to tangible progress and results across 
the EU for much better protection against EDC exposure. This is also an opportunity for 
the EU to take a global leadership position to put health at the heart of its recovery 
policies.  
 
Spokesperson for the EDC-Free Europe coalition 
, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) 
About the EDC-Free Europe coalition: EDC-Free Europe is a coalition of public interest groups 
representing more than 70 environmental, health, women’s and consumer groups across Europe who share 
a concern about hormone disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and their impact on our health and wildlife. 
Campaign partners include trade unions, consumers, public health and healthcare professionals, advocates 
for cancer prevention, environmentalists and women’s groups. The secretariat is hosted by HEAL 
Transparency Register number: 00723343929-96. Website: http://www.edc-free-europe.org/ 

 

 
 
[1] https://www.edc-free-europe.org/about-us 
[2] Study Requested by the PETI committee, European Parliament, “Endocrine Disruptors : from Scientific 
Evidence to Human Health Protection”, Barbara Demeneix, Remy Slama, March 2019. 
[3] Burden of disease and costs of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in the European Union: an 
updated analysis, L. Trasande et al. 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244983/ 
[4] “A chemicals strategy as part of the European Green Deal: time to deliver” 8 November 2019, letter 
from 25 Environment & Health NGOs https://mk0eeborgicuypctuf7e.kinstacdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2019/11/NGO-Letter-to-Ursula-VDL_EGD_final.pdf - Annexe Towards a Non Toxic 
Environment – NGOs Chemical Policy asks for the New Commission https://www.env-health.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/11/Annex-to-Letter-to-Ursula-VDL_final.pdf 

 

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