Germany Reports 4,943 Unlawful Online Chemical Offers

Germany's federal-state chemicals safety working group, BLAC, has announced a report on online chemical-trade surveillance showing 4,943 unlawful offers identified and processed in 2025.

The announcement is dated 2 November 2026. The report itself carries a May 2026 version date and describes the previous year's enforcement work. It concerns online chemicals, chemical products and articles containing hazardous substances.

REACH Accounts For The Largest Reported Category

The report's breakdown by regulation records:

Legal Framework	Reported Violations
REACH	1,950
Biocidal Products Regulation	1,224
Classification, Labelling And Packaging Regulation	872
Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulation	796

The report also covers violations under German biocide and chemical-supply rules and the F-gas Regulation. These are enforcement findings under existing rules, rather than new restrictions or application dates.

Risk-Based Checks Limit The Comparisons

BLAC cautions that its surveillance follows a risk-based approach. The findings cannot establish the proportion of all online products that is non-compliant.

Changes in enforcement priorities, participating authorities and the products inspected also limit comparisons over time. Separate checks conducted by individual German states are outside the reported expert-group figures.

Platform comparisons carry another limitation. Differences in available monitoring software affect how efficiently authorities can examine different websites, so the report says the counts should not be used as direct comparisons between platforms.

Removal Does Not Always End An Offer

The report describes requests for platforms to remove unlawful listings. It says platforms generally cooperate, but identical or slightly changed offers often reappear.

For sellers outside the EU, BLAC reports limited practical enforcement options. It says measures frequently depend on voluntary cooperation by platforms and sellers.