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The Forum holds its open sessions once a year during one of the Forum and BPRS meetings. All ECHA Accredited Stakeholder Organisations (ASO) are invited to participate. At these sessions, accredited stakeholders have the opportunity to engage with the Forum and discuss issues related to enforcement or compliance of the chemicals legislation.

A call for interest and request to submit proposals for presentations is launched at the end of the summer each year.

The 2025 Joint Forum-BPRS Open session took place on 2 December 2025 as a virtual meeting.

The open session was attended by 16 representatives from 13 accredited stakeholder organisations (ASOs) and 13 representatives from six accessing countries.

The stakeholders presented topics related to the challenges regarding data protection stop under the BPR, potential benefits of EU support for market surveillance, enforcement of authorisation and labelling requirements under the microplastics restriction.

The participants were also briefed about the results of the Forum enforcement projects finalised in 2025, namely the REF-12 project on imported products and the pilot project on poison centre notifications. The workshop with stakeholders, where the projects’ results and recommendations will be presented in detail, are planned for Q1-Q2 2026. These will be recorded and made available for future reference inECHA's events page.

Forum invited the stakeholders to submit project proposals by 10 April 2026 so it can be part of the 2026 cycle for the selection of enforcement projects (link for the template at the end of the page).