VERHEUGEN – REACH

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCOMING European industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has accepted a "potential risk of some loss of export market share for the chemical sector in the short run" because of the European Union's (EU) REACH system. Answering a European Parliament questionnaire, he said longer term competitiveness effects would depend on whether REACH becomes "a new international standard".



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