EUROPEAN AUTO INDUSTRY CONCERN OVER REACH GUIDELINES AS CHEMICAL CONTROL SYSTEM COMES INTO FORCE
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHIS month, the European Union's (EU) long debated chemical control system REACH has come into force, amidst deepening concern that it could impose overwhelming administrative burdens on the European auto industry, unforeseen when the regulation was approved last year.As a key consumer of chemical products, the automobile manufacturing industry has to not only ensure that its suppliers register most chemical substances used to make the components and products they buy for assembly, they also have to ensure that the use of these substances also ...
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