Wallstrom: REACH, Climate Change
February 1st, 2007“I cannot hide the feeling that the proposal could have been more far-reaching and that I would have wanted to see a more ambitious chemicals management‘s regulation. Despite the shortcomings of the new emerging text on REACH, the two main goals (abolishment of current dual system for the risk assessment of chemicals and the burden of proof) of REACH still hold. And it is better to have a law that a draft law!”
“It will be interesting to see who will be the first producer who would provide the full safety file to the Chemicals agency….”
I would be more worried about whether the shiny new European Chemicals Agency will have the capacity!