EU CHEMCALS PROPOSALS
May 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNPOLYMERS and other intermediate chemicals have come off lightly under the European Commission's long-awaited proposals for new legislation to regulate chemicals in the European Union. In many cases such substances will be freed from the need to register and for others the requirements will be significantly eased. The Commission has also granted the petrochemicals industry the right to group together products that are similar in nature thus averting the threat that thousands of different registration applications would have to be made.Brussels, which ...
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