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As a trusted provider of SAP-based solutions for product compliance, we’re excited to connect face-to-face with our customers and forge new partnerships at the SAP for EHS and Product Compliance Conference in Budapest. This year, Mark Pfister will join Andreas Ehlers from Merck, Head of Digital Transformation and Hazard Communication, in taking center stage. They will present a case study titled "From Compliance to Confidence: Automate Your Product Notification Process", including information on how opesus solutions empower businesses to streamline compliance with confidence.

This year's SAP for EHS and Product Compliance Conference, presented by TAC Insights, brought together industry professionals in the area of environmental, health, safety, and product compliance. It's the first in-person conference since 2019. We were excited to be there, together with our esteemed reference customer, Belden. Together, we presented on "Connecting SAP Material Conformity to the World".

The next SAP EHS & Product Compliance conference will take place in-person and we're pumped! Taking place in Amsterdam, we're looking forward to two days of insights into the latest advancements in SAP EHS and Product Compliance solutions.

We are proud to announce that the latest version of opesus EHS Product Notification, version 5.0, is now available! This new release is extra special as it includes a new format - Chemicals Marketability Data Exchange (CMDE). This new format is introduced to enable companies to exchange marketability data along the supply chain. Read on to find out more about CMDE and our new features!

ChemCon 2023 took place in Vienna from October 23 to 27. This conference brings together many experts from companies, authorities, and international organizations. The focus focus is the field of chemical legislation all over the world such as EU-REACH, UK-REACH, TSCA, K-REACH, GHS, upcoming PFAS regulations and many more.

We are excited to announce that we will be attending ChemCon Europe 2023 in Vienna, Austria, from 23rd to 27th October 2023. ChemCon is a global platform that brings together experts from companies, authorities, and international organizations to discuss the latest developments in international chemical legislation. We are proud to be a sponsor of this event and to share our insights and solutions with the chemical industry.

We are proud to announce that the latest version of opesus EHS Product Notification, version 4.6, is now available! This new release includes the IUCLID format update to version 6.7 that is relevant for the formats C&L, PCN and SCIP. Additionally, we provide the following improvements and new features.

Chemical Watch Expo took place this year in Amsterdam on the 15th and 16th June. For two days, the event brings together the chemical regulatory community to get up to date with the latest global regulatory developments. Experts and service providers address key developments in chemicals management and regulations affecting the industry. The topics were divided into three streams: Europe, Global, and Asia.

As is tradition at opesus, our new colleagues have chosen an organization for this year's Christmas Charity on behalf of our customers. In 2022, we were able to expand our team in Germany, the USA, and for the very first time in Spain. Therefore, our new colleagues (Alice, Anaid, Ella, James, Javier, Julia, Mikail, and Natalie) have chosen a Spanish foundation called Oncolliga.

In August 2022 opesus turned 10 years! Have a look back on our journey and the many milestones we've achieved.

Yordas Group and opesus are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining Yordas’ regulatory data with opesus’ suite of sustainability solutions for SAP.

The annual DSAG conference took place from 11^th to 13^th October in Leipzig. The 3-day agenda was fully packed with keynotes, presentations, hands-on sessions from SAP, partners, industry, and DSAG. The DSAG work group EHS and Product Compliance also had a stream of three presentations, which was hosted by Markus Pogrzeba, co-chair of the working group.

The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the appointed body for CLP Art. 45 in Germany. The institute receives product notifications and forwards them to the seven poison centres in Germany. The majority of product notifications are submitted centrally via the Submission Portal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which in turn forwards them to the BfR.

We are proud to announce that the latest version of opesus EHS Product Notification, version 4.4, is now available! This new release brings with it improvements and features for submitting information to the ECHA Submission Portal and EU SCIP Database.

Finally, after being postponed due to the pandemic, ChemCon Europe 2022 took place! ChemCon Europe 2022 was held in London from June 20th to 24th. The first day was a workshop focused on IT tools followed by two seminars. Tuesday through Friday were filled with great presentations covering the field of chemical regulations - from the EU, the UK, Turkey, Asia, and the Americas.

We are proud to announce that the latest version of opesus EPN SCIP EHSM Integration – version 1.4 – is now available! Here’s what’s new!

SAP customers using SAP S/4HANA for product compliance are now able to manage poison centre notifications (PCN) as a compliance requirement with the new PCN feature. In a recent blog post, SAP gave a preview of this new feature. This means that all SAP customers, whether on S/4HANA for product compliance or using SAP ECC, can manage UFIs for PCN notifications to the European Chemical Agency (ECHA).

We’re happy to share with you that the latest release of opesus EPN, version 4.3, is now available. Here’s a look at some of the new and improved features for customers using EPN with the EU PCN format and the Swiss BAG format.

We are proud to announce that the latest version of opesus EHS Product Notification, version 4.3, is now available! This new release brings with it improvements and features for submitting information to the ECHA SCIP Database.

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the appointed body for receiving product notifications and forwarding them to the various poison centres in Germany. As the main responsible body, the BfR also checks product notifications for completeness and accuracy and work hand-in-hand with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).