EU ROUND UP – ECHA AND CEFIC SIGN DEAL AS REACH REGISTRATION ENDS
July 1st, 2018
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and European chemical industry association CEFIC have signed a cooperation agreement to aid the implementation of REACH regulations within the European Union (EU). The deal follows the export of the last REACH registration deadline – on May 31 (2018), when chemical substances produced or imported in the EU in quantities of between 1 and 100 tonnes annually had to be registered with ECHA. A CEFIC note declared: “REACH now regulates all chemicals on the EU market,” so the agreement would focus on “improving the ...
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