This is not a european things, its the united nations - you literally don't get a higher power for making worldwide decisions imo, and if europe as you put it was so helpless and powerless against china... where did the pmk methyl glycidate go, oh wait the chinese stopped supplying it because the united nations banned in 2019, which is when the chinese adapted to pmk ethyl glycidate... which is now going to be banned along with all the other possible esters, it's only a matter of time, the report is from November last year so i'd give it 6 months tops until its all signed off and agreed.