Court cases introduction

One of the purposes of the Inspector which the association proposed to appoint was evidently to strengthen the position of members of the trade in court cases. It is also possible that members of the trade hoped, through the institution of a system of self-regulation, to circumvent the introduction of compulsory government inspection. At the same time the replies of Hutchinson and Henry Deacon to the Select Committee inquiry of 1862 demonstrate a desire to be seen as an industry acting in a public-spirited and responsible manner. It was stressed that for a long time the majority of the trade had held it to be a duty to condense hydrochloric acid fumes, irrespective of the profit or loss involved. ... 

The most well-known legal principle in the field of chemicals policy is the Precautionary Principle it is so well-known that it hardly requires any further introduction here. It was introduced into EU environmental law through the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. The principle s value as a guide for decision making in different policy areas is often questioned, and some analyses of its impact on EU chemicals policy indicate that its influence is not that significant (Heyvaert, 2006), though it can be hard to determine exactly how influential the principle has been for important law cases from the Court of Justice of the European Communities. 

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