REACH EXEMPTION PLAN
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA REPRESENTATIVE of the largest political group on the European Parliament (EP) has proposed that certain metals and all alloys be exempted from the European Union's (EU) proposed REACH chemical control system. German MEP Hartmut Nassauer, of the EP's European People's Party/European Democrats group, has said that many natural substances should be exempt from REACH, if they "may be used without intermediate treatment by means of chemical substances". In a note to the parliament's internal market committee, he said only if exposure could be harmful ...
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