📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2023
End Date: 30/09/2027
Total Eligible Budget: 5,999,457 €
EU Contribution: 3,599,674 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
FFR-2 aims to support SMEs in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Poland that use (hazardous) chemicals in their products or processes. It connects to activities of the predecessor project FFR-1(2015-20). The goal of the FFR-2 is to implement (elements of) chemicals risk management systems in companies, to incentivise and support a reduction of the use, emissions and exposures to hazardous substances. The work will be based on a comprehensive understanding of chemicals risk management, provided in form of handbooks, tools as well as specific and practical consultation. The main targeted group and direct beneficiaries of chemicals risk management work will be formulators of mixtures and end-users of substances and mixtures. Amongst others, we will help them to thoroughly assess alternatives to hazardous substances and mixtures to avoid regrettable substitution. By improving e.g. purchasing routines, workers protection, monitoring chemicals use and communication in the supply chain, chemicals literacy and awareness for safe, toxic free products will be increased. In cooperation with the further target group of companies in the waste sector we will assess how to identify hazardous substances in wastes and how this information could change their sorting and treatment practices resulting in cleaner secondary materials. While in the FFR-1 we only worked in the Baltic States, the current proposal also includes two Polish partners who will implement the activities in Poland.
