European Chemicals Agency

Sofia Zisi, director general of Greece's General State Chemical Laboratory, has been elected chair of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) management board for the next two years.

Zisi succeeds Paul Krajnik from Austria's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, who served for two full terms.

The agenda of the meeting of the EU environment council held in Luxembourg on Wednesday, included a discussion on the management of chemicals, according to a press statement released by the Romanian Ministry of the Environment. The meeting was the last organised under the aegis of the Romanian presidency of the EU Council.