REACH CHEMICAL CONTROL SYSTEM WILL IMPOSE SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS ON THE EU TOBACCO INDUSTRY
July 1st, 2007
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) REACH legislation for the registration and authorisation of chemicals came into effect on June 1 and will have a major effect on the tobacco industry. The industry's detractors have long been keen to use REACH to control the chemicals added to cigarettes in particular, and the European Parliament had pressed for the law to single out tobacco as a sector requiring scrutiny under the law. However, this idea was dropped after the European Commission released a formal statement - outside the regulation - that ...
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