Harmonisation of EU Risk Management

Supply chain Develop extended producer responsibility as a regulatory tool Develop methods to standardise and promote best practice 

Product-based legislation Develop methods to improve bottom-up substitution Develop rapid methods to set EU product standards 

Socio-econom i c analysis (SEA) Streamline SEA by targeting specific sectors or limiting its application to the national level Incorporate mutagens and reprotoxins into regulatory priorities, statistical studies and SEA 

The proposed systems framework for EU decision-making under REACH seeks to counterbalance the weaknesses and to draw on the strengths of the national approaches while addressing the points shown in Table 7.1. Specifically, the framework would fuse hazard, technical and risk-benefit approaches to risk management (Table 7.2). Compared with the current process of chemical legislation and the recent REACH proposal, the systems framework would avoid a linear substance-by-substance approach by applying a set of decision-making rules based on hazard and use to all chemicals (Section 5.3.1). 

Hazard Increased input of epidemiological and environmental monitoring data to REACH Regulatory recommendations for professional and consumer products Listed uses (published on REACH-IT website) for substances in certain consumer products 

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