UEIL News
ATI Campaign As foreseen, the European Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers at the end of December 2017. Subsequently, the text was endorsed by Coreper – the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union. As expected, the specific amendments on RMI that UEIL had been advocated were not included in the final text of the proposal due to the scope of the review and limited appetite to open discussions on certain technical aspects.
In terms of next steps, the lead committee in the European Parliament – IMCO (Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection) – will discuss and vote on the text at its next meetings on 22-23 January. If the report is approved at committee level, it is expected to be submitted to plenary vote in April 2018.
UEIL will continue to follow this issue and push for the Commission to undertake specific work on the RMI provisions.
Fiscal Issues The European Commission is reviewing the Energy Taxation Directive that was withdrawn by the European Commission in 2015. The European Commission hired an external agency (Deloitte) to prepare a technical study on the key elements of a revised Energy Taxation Directive. The publication of the study was foreseen for Q4 2017 but is delayed to Q1 2018. UEIL provided its input to Deloitte in Q3 2017 and highlighted that through the inclusion of lubes within the Directive but with an specific exemption (as was the case in the previous directives 92/12/EC, 92/81/EC and 92/82/EC) a real level playing field can be achieved, as it will mean that national taxation on lubes will be abolished.
In addition, UEIL will set up meetings in Q1 2018 with experts in the European Commission (DG TAXUD and the responsible Cabinet) to explain more in detail its position on the Energy Taxation Directive.
In Q4 of 2017 UEIL also had contact with the Fiscal Attaches of the Permanent Representations of UK, The Netherlands, Spain, France and Slovakia to guarantee that a blocking minority at Council level remains in place against the inclusion of lubes under EMCS. The main outcome of these meetings was that the blocking minority remains is place. However due to the Brexit negotiations the support of the UK for UEIL’s position cannot be guaranteed, UEIL will continue reaching out to other potential allies at Member State level (e.g. Belgium and Sweden) to secure a blocking minority against the inclusion of lubes under EMCS in 2018.
UEIL HSE Committee
The HSE committee is primarily concerned about the relatively low numbers of registrations. Only 11,000 substances have been registered so far, but half of them only as intermediates. The estimated number of substances on the EU market is about
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40,000. UEIL members should therefore contact their suppliers for more information on their registration intentions.
CoRAP and future availability of lube additives: a number of additives, including some biocides, are being reviewed by the European Commission for their risks to health and the environment. Early information exchange within the HSE group helps us to find replacements or – even better – convince authorities that their use in lubricants is safe.
GLAPS: the car manufacturers have set up a global list of declarable substances in their manufacturing sites. HSE members are very involved in creating the European part of this global list. Our goal is to find the right balance between protecting our knowhow and helping the industry use safe substances.
Ecolabel: the update of the Ecolabel for lubricants is also being discussed in the HSE group. Some of our members are involved in the Commission’s work. As a first outcome, the changes for the Ecolabel are quite limited, allowing UEIL members to keep their products which have already been successfully introduced.
There are increasing concerns from the public about “Mosh / Moah” in food. Mosh / Moah means “saturated (MOSH) and aromatic (MOAH) hydrocarbons”. Risks to human health related to hydrocarbons are linked to so called aromatic and polycyclic aromatics, whereas many other hydrocarbons (e.g. white oils used in cosmetics and H1 lubricants) are not dangerous. Together with the ELGI food grade working group and the German lubricant association VSI, we have drafted papers and press releases to inform the public about these differences.
UEIL Technical Committee The last Technical Meeting was held in Brussels on 24 January 2018.
The Technical and Competition Committee have recently issued the following OEM Bulletins: • Ferrari Owner’s Manual Update • Doosan Bobcat
October 2017 October 2017
• Volvo Coolant VCS Standard 481-0001 October 2017 • JCB Gear Oil HP Plus • Schaffer Axle Fluid SB
November 2017 November 2017
The Technical Committee is currently investigating: • Industrial 1 Case • Off Highway 9 Cases + (3 cases have been transferred to the CC) • PCMO • HDDO
5 Cases + (4 cases have been transferred to the CC) 1 Cases + (2 cases have been transferred to the CC)
• Two Stroke 0 cases + (2 cases have been transferred to the CC)
The next Technical Committee meeting will be held in Brussels on 23 May 2018.
LUBE MAGAZINE NO.143 FEBRUARY 2018
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