WTO CONCERNS RAISED OVER REACH COMPLEXITY AS EU SYSTEM GETS INTO GEAR
December 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIPLOMATIC grumbles have started to emerge about the European Union's (EU) REACH chemical control system, with claims being made at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) its complexity could break EU commitments under the WTO's technical barriers to trade agreement. At a meeting of the WTO technical barriers to trade committee, Argentina, Brazil, the USA, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Chile, China, Mexico and Thailand all raised concerns that REACH could impose illegally difficult tasks on their exporters. Problems raised included ...
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