Green emerges triumphant over industry in latest REACH wrangle
November 1st, 2006Green emerges triumphant over industry in latest REACH wrangle
Mmmm, not much to be triumphant about really….
The EU Parliament must maintain it’s credibility in the face of the potential damage to European competitiveness, and the pressure to ratify this legislation by the end of the year. Voting for the increased restrictions, the Sacconi Proposals, means concilliation, and that means another delay in implementation.
They’ve surely copped-it by now that, what in spirit is a very worthy piece of legislation, has become corrupted into an expensive eurocratic papermill. Ultimately, we stifle innovation, and logically derived risk management, through the smokescreen of hazard-based precaution.
These proposals are simply unworkable.
Meanwhile, the inherent contradiction of the REACH legislation - a significant increase in enforced and unnecessary animal testing without decisive action on the mandated drive to reduce such testing - remains yet another embarrassing pimple for the EU ‘pro-ject’.
What could have been a model for a workable risk-based, and thus far more effective, system has been reduced to a slanging match with pitiful displays of triumphalism.
A ‘Hall of Shame’ is sure to follow….