Table 1 Overview of regulations used to produce the dataset.

From: Insights from international environmental legislation and protocols for the global plastic treaty

Regulation measure

Year of adoption

No of substances included

EPA clean water act priority substances

1972

119

EPA-clean air act on hazardous substances

1970

76

EU REACH restricted list

2006

32

EU REACH BPR list

2012

3

EU cosmetics directive

1976

77

EU REACH candidate list

2013

29

EU Water framework directive

2000

48

EU POP pollutant

2019

41

EU RoH pollutant

2003

8

EU Annex III

2000

97

EU pre-registered substances

2008

174