EU ROUND UP – ECHA SUGGESTS UK CHEMICAL COMPANIES SELL TO EU COMPANIES TO AVOID BREXIT-RELATED REACH PROBLEMS

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has recommended that British paints, coatings and other chemical companies consider transferring or selling their ownership to businesses in remaining European Union (EU) member states, assuming the UK quits the EU on March 29. In its latest guidance to UK and other EU companies ahead of Brexit, the agency has given advice British companies wanting to continue suppyling chemical products to remaining EU customers after that deadline. The first option recommended in a list of three is that British exporters “transfer [their] ...


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