Ales Bartl, Ph.D.

Ales Bartl, Ph.D.: Attorney with Keller and Heckman LLP

Biography

Ales Bartl has a broad experience in European Union (EU) product regulatory law, including Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, the Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) regulation, Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), medical devices, electronic products, and general product compliance and product safety. He advises on regulatory compliance of a broad range of products marketed in the EU, including tobacco products, novel products, modern oral nicotine products, and electronic cigarettes, and represents clients before EU and national competent authorities on compliance and enforcement issues, including product withdrawals and recalls.

Ales also represents clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Board of Appeal of European Chemicals Agency.

Prior to joining Keller and Heckman, Ales interned at the European Commission (EC) and worked for almost ten years as an EU regulatory associate at two international law firms in Brussels.

Insights & In the News

Publication of the Environmental Omnibus by the European Commission

12.17.2025
Publication

Second Public Consultation on REACH PFAS Proposal - ECHA Guidance for Respondents

10.30.2025
Publication

Industry Input Sought on Streamlining EU Environmental Legislation through Environmental ...

07.25.2025
Publication

Ales Bartl and Herb Estreicher Quoted in Inside PFAS Policy Article on ECHA Declining to ...

In The News
08.27.2025

Events

REACH 30/30 - 25 February 2026

Webinar

02.25.2026

Partner Ales Bartl to Present at Webinar on PFAS and Other Upcoming Chemicals and Sustainability Regulations

Speaking Engagement

03.10.2026

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Areas of Practice (12)

  • Chemical Control
  • Environmental
  • Product Stewardship and Sustainability
  • REACH
  • Chemicals and Plastics
  • Consumer Products and Retail
  • Digital Media, Technology, and Telecommunications
  • Energy, Infrastructure, and Transportation
  • Food & Life Sciences
  • Packaging
  • Tobacco and E-Vapor
  • Trade Associations

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Ph.D., 2010
Law School Attended:
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, Master in Law, 2003
Year of First Admission:
2011
Admission:
Brussels Bar (B-List); Czech Bar
Languages:
English and French and Czech and Slovak
Reported Cases:
Representative Matters: Represented a client in a legal challenge to the listing of a substance as a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) in the EU General Court; Represented a trade association in an appeal of a REACH Restriction before the European Court of Justice; Represented a client in challenging a dossier evaluation decision before the ECHA Board of Appeal; Represented clients in several substances and dossier evaluation procedures before ECHA; Advised on withdrawal of a consumer product containing REACH-restricted phthalates; Drafted data-sharing agreements related to new biocidal active substances and biocidal product families; Provided assessments of regulatory status of several borderline products between medical device/cosmetic products/biocidal products; Provided legal management of a REACH consortium for a substance with increased scrutiny by ECHA because of complicated substance identity profile (reaction product) and potential hazards; Provided contract drafting (SIEF and consortia agreements, only representative agreements, intra-company agreements for REACH management); Conducted data-sharing disputes; Advised on classification and labeling and harmonized classification procedures, including advocacy; Advised on substances of very high concern (SVHC) in articles and on ECHA substances of concern in products (SCIP) database of articles containing SVHC; Advised on applicability of REACH authorization requirement in the supply chain; Provided advocacy related to a derogation request from a REACH restriction; Advised on the best pathways for authorization of biocidal products; Advised on and advocated with the Swedish authority KEMI related to the approval of a new active substance based on silver; Provided defense of Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) enforcement case in France; Advised on Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) (applicability, exemption procedures, interface with REACH); Advised on applicability of the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD); Worked on recipe requirements pursuant to specific legislation (baby food, chocolate products, organic food, etc.); Assisted with applicability of standards and sector-specific product regulations relevant to electronic products
ISLN:
922328473

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