INDUSTRY FRIENDLY REACH WILL STILL IMPOSE DEMANDS ON PLASTICS INDUSTRY SAY EXPERTS
December 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN and DEIRDRE MASON
HEAVY lobbying, principally by the German chemical industry, has delivered a much more industry-friendly version of the European Union's (EU) ambitious REACH chemical control legislation than had seemed likely at almost any time in recent years. The final regulation, approved last week (December 13) by the European Parliament and formally adopted by the EU Council of Ministers this week (Monday 18) incorporates a major climb-down by MEPs on the key issue of substitution, the element of REACH that has lost concerned the plastics ...
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