ECJ LIMITS MONOMERS CONTROLLED BY REACH TO THOSE INTEGRATED IN POLYMERS
July 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by an international group of polymer exporters and importers to avoid having to register under the European Union's (EU) REACH chemical control system the monomers used to make their products appears to have failed.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now made an important ruling that confirms the need for importers and EU manufacturers of polymers to register "reacted monomers which are integrated in polymers."
Judges rejected a key argument of the group that monomers effectively ceased to exist when they became part ...
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